Austin extends ordinance allowing city to enforce COVID-19 rules

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- In a special meeting Tuesday, Austin City Council voted to extend an ordinance that allows the city to enforce the COVID-19 rules set forward by the local health authority. The original ordinance was set to expire on Dec. 31.
"This is an extensions of an ordinance that we passed last year that gave the rules of our health authority the weight and enforceability of ordinances that we would otherwise pass," Mayor Steve Adler explained in a special meeting Tuesday.
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