Mayor's COVID-19 Emergency Rule No. 20

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Mayor's COVID-19 Emergency Rule No. 20 Page 2 of 12 intensive care unit hospital beds on island. Without immediate action, the County of Hawaiʻi is unable to meet urgent health care needs of our island community. As a result, it has become necessary to continue restrictions with this Emergency Rule to reduce the threat of continued spread of COVID-19 and enable our health care resources to meet the urgent health care needs of our people. I, Mitchell D. Roth, Mayor of the County of Hawaiʻi, hereby authorize the following: A. Work in Businesses or Operations All businesses, operations, and activities are permitted to remain open except those businesses, operations and activities delineated in Exhibit 5, or as otherwise provided by this rule, and subject to all face covering, safety restrictions and physical distancing requirements of this rule, the Governor’s Emergency Proclamation Related to COVID-19 dated November 29, 2021, as may be amended, and any subsequent proclamations or orders. Nothing in this rule shall prevent businesses, operations, or activity sponsors from protecting their employees and customers by requiring proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test of employees or customers as a condition to entry into the business establishment, operation or to participating in an activity. B. County Government Operations 1. Individuals entering a County Facility pursuant to this Rule shall minimize time within County Facilities to the extent reasonably possible. This shall include going directly to the room, department, or area of the County Facility in which their presence is required and leaving immediately after their Official County Business is complete. Individuals who enter County Facilities must, while therein, comply with Safe Practices requirements set forth in the Governor’s Emergency Proclamation Related to COVID-19 dated November 29, 2021, as may be amended from time to time, and maintain six (6) feet between themselves and any other person to the extent feasible. 2. Inasmuch as county offices vary in size and ability to accommodate members of the public in a manner consistent with safe practices, each county department head may issue protocols and adjust department operations as necessary to minimize direct interaction between its staff and the public or to minimize the number of persons entering its offices.