Some Texas Counties Impose Mask Requirement on Businesses

After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott banned local jurisdictions from mandating masks, a San Antonio-area county judge found a loophole in that order: Place the burden on businesses to require face coverings

HOUSTON—On Monday, the first day that businesses here were required to make their customers wear face coverings, a few walked out of Phoenicia Specialty Foods in protest, said Haig Tcholakian, owner of the Houston grocery chain.

He didn’t mind. The store wants everyone to wear masks inside and finally has a reason to enforce that: The county is making them. Plus, he added, he can tell them he risks fines if their faces remain uncovered—since some people may find an economic argument more compelling than a health one.

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