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The statewide mask mandate expired earlier in April, but last weekend Park City offered a different message along Main Street.
City Hall continued to display a sign on the shopping, dining and entertainment strip with outdated information about mask requirements. The sandwich-board sign, located steps from a busy walkway linking Main Street with the Old Town transit center, advertised that “Wearing a mask is mandatory in all Park City shops and restaurants.” It said mask wearing was “Per State of Utah health order” with the City Hall logo at the bottom.
But mask wearing by the weekend was not mandatory, and the state health order the sign noted had ended days before, leading to the potential that the signs would cause confusion. The mask mandate, a public health rule that was designed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, was especially controversial as case counts dropped sharply from the highs during the winter.