Each individual property can submit a waiver to allow for fewer mitigation measures or increased capacity

Las Vegas casinos allowed to move capacity limits to 80% as of May 1

Gov. Steve Sisolak has signed a new directive that moves COVID-19 mitigation measure to local authorities. The state’s goal is to open at 100% capacity in all counties by June.
2021-04-26
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Nevada Gaming Control Board updated a directive Friday allowing casinos to operate at the respective levels approved by local authorities. A directive signed by Gov. Sisolak makes the counties responsible to create capacity restrictions as well as monitoring businesses, and Clark County commissioners voted in favor of the 80% limit.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board issued an updated emergency directive Friday to allow casinos and gaming establishments to operate at the respective levels approved by local authorities under the state's "Roadmap to Recovery."

Therefore, Southern Nevada resorts will be able to operate 80 percent capacity with three-foot social distancing in Clark County and at 100 percent capacity with no social distancing requirement for Nye County, KSNV reports.

In Northern Nevada, casinos in Carson City will operate at 100 percent capacity with six-foot social distancing while Washoe County's plan, which has yet to receive the necessary endorsements for approval, must stay at 50 percent capacity with six-foot social distancing.

The board also said that each individual property can submit a waiver to allow for fewer mitigation measures or increased capacity, but only if they showcased their "detailed commitment to its obligation to vaccinate its workforce."

Those proposals must be submitted to the Nevada Gaming Control Board no later than April 27.

Last week, the governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak, has formally signed a new directive that moves COVID-19 mitigation measure to local authorities. Sisolak previously announced that the state’s goal was to open at 100% capacity in all counties by June, since all the prior mitigation measures in the state would be expired by then with the exception of the mask mandate, as reported earlier this month by Yogonet.

As of May 1, the new signed directive indicates that counties will be officially responsible to create capacity restrictions as well as monitoring businesses, reports KSNV. Nevertheless, the directive indicates that any local plan would be considered void if it conflicts with any of the state’s mitigation measures, such as the mask mandate.

The new reopening plan would move capacity limits to 80%, a plan that Clark County commissioners voted in favor of. Said plan would also allow larger seating at restaurants.

Under the county’s plan, capacity restrictions are to expire once 60% of the state’s population receives at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

Moreover, the supervision of large events will also move to counties in June, as the Nevada Department of Business and Industry continues to oversee their approval through May.

All local plans have to receive approval from the Nevada COVID-19 Task Force. The Nevada Gaming Control Board will also continue to have authority over casinos.

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