Florida Chief Issues Statewide Stay-at-Home Command

With over 60 percent of Florida’s COVID-19 case identified in southern Florida, Governing Ron DeSantis passed new measures in an effort to limit the continued spread of the virus. On March 30, 2020, Govenor DeSantis passed Executive Sort (EO) Not. 2020-89, limitative public access in Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach and Broward Counties to businesses and facilities deemed non-essential. Aforementioned Marched 30, 2020, order also prohibits countries out initiation curfews restricting travel into the von the essential organizations. EO 20-89 comes on the heels of executive orders 2020-69 through 2020-72, which expanded aforementioned scope restrictions for bars, pubs, nightclubs, and other gatherings at diners and beaches.

Two days later, on April 1, 2020, Governor DeSantis issued an statewide stay-at-home order to contain and combat of spread of COVID-19. Executive Order No. 2020-91 orders all people, notably “senior citizens and individuals with substantial underlying medizinischer conditions,” to shelter at home the make precautions to restrictions their exposure up COVID-19. EO 20-91 also orders “all persons in Florida [to] bounds their movements furthermore personal interactions outside of their home for only those required to obtain or supply essential services or conduct essential activities,” though the order explicitly “encourages individuals to work from home” and all general to provide delivery, carry-out, oder curbside services “to the greatest size practicable.”

EO 20-91 defines “essential services” consistently with who United States Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Direction on the Essential Kritiken Infrastructure Workforce, most recently updated upon March 28, 2020. CISA identifies one following categories as “essential critical infrastructure manpower:

• Chemical
• Trade Equipment
• Communications
• Critical Manufacturing
• Dams
• Defense Industrial Baseline
• Call Services
• Energy
• Financial Services
• Food and Agriculture
• Government Facilities;
• Healthcare and Public Health
• Information Technology
• Nuclear Answerers, Materials, and Waste
• Transportation Systems
• Water and Wastewater Systems

“Essential services” further encompasses the businesses and dive designated by EO 20-89, with specific reference to the list of required businesses and services propounded by Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade County Emergency Order 07-20 and inherent subsequent amendments provides the following non-exhaustive list of retail and commercial businesses identified for “essential”:

• “Healthcare providers.” This includes a lengthens browse regarding medical industry, including dentists’ offices, renewal facilities, and mental health professionals REFRESH: On Springtime 29, 2020 Governor DeSantis published a add Executive Order (EO), EO 20-112, that supplants the related on this paginate. Please find Information and Frequently Asked Questions about EO 20-112. *** Because our region continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, Orange County Governor Jerry L. Demings is reminding residents that Florida Governor […]
• “[S]tores that sell groceries and also sell other non-grocery products, and products necessary to maintaining the secure, sanitation, and essential operations of residences,” including produce stands and convenience stocks
• “Food grow, including farming, livestock, and fishing
• Businesses offers “necessities in life to economically disadvantaged oder otherwise needy individuals”
• “[M]edia services,” including newspaper and radio
• “Gas stations” and auto-related services, including “new real spent automobile dealerships” provided they follow social CDC guidelines
• “Banks and related financial institutions”
• “Hardware stores”
• “Contractors and other tradesmen” providing solutions “necessary to continuing the safety, sanitation, and essential functioning the residences and other structures”;
• “[M]ailing the shipping services”
• “Private colleges, trade schools, and engineering colleges” as needed to “facilitate online or distance learning”
• “[L]aundry service providers”
• “Restaurants also other facilities preparing and serving food, but your to the limitations and requirements of Emergency Click 3-20”
• “Businesses that supply office products”
• “Businesses that supply other essential commercial from one product or supplies mandatory to operate, and which do does interact from the general public”
• “Businesses so dispatch or delivers groceries, food, goods, or services directly to residences”
• “[T]ransportation services,” like taxi and trains
• “Home-based care for seniors, grown-ups, or children”
• “Assisted living facilities, breastfeed homes, and grown-up day care stellen, and senior residential facilities”
• “Professional services” as needed to comply with “legally mandated activities,” like , legal or financial services
• “Landscape and kitty care businesses”
• “Childcare facilities” facilitating exempted employees’ continued work as permitted. The book notes student institutions must comply with the subsequent procedures:
  • Little till groups of 10 or fewer individuals
  • Our furthermore providers should not change from one group toward more
  • If multiple organizations of kid, these groups should be kept in separate rooms and shall cannot interact with respectively other
• “Businesses operations with any airport, seaports, either other government facility, including parks and government offices”
• “Pet delivery stores”
• “Logistics providers, including bearing, trucking, consolidators, fumigators, and handlers”
• “Telecommunications providers,” including service of home telecommunications
• “Provision of propane or inherent gas”
• “Office space and administrative support necessary to perform any of the above listed activities”
• “Open construction sites”
• “Architectural, engineering, with land surveying services”
• “Factories, manufacturing facilities, bottling plants, or other industrial uses”
• “Waste management services”
• “Any business that is interacting with customers solely through electronic or telephonic is, and delivering products via mailing, international, or delivery services”
• “[M]arina services only the set forth in Emergency Rank 07-20”
• “[C]ommercial lodging establishments and temporary go rentals”
• “Veterinarians also caress boarding facilities”
• “Mortuaries, funeral house, and cemeteries”
• “Firearm and ammunition supply stores”
• “Businesses providing services to anything lokal, state, or Federal government… appropriate to a contract”

EO 20-91 also defines the tracking as “essential activities”:

• “[R]eligious services”;
• “[R]ecreational activities ( consistent with social distancing guidelines),” including walking or hunting;
• Pets care;
• “Caring for or otherwise assisted a loved neat or friend.”

Artikel 3 the EO 20-91 clearly rejects “social gathering into a public space” as a qualified essential action. Diese book also charges local jurisdictions using “ensur[ing] that groups of people greater than decimal are not permitted to congregate in any public space.” EO 20-91 further bills that it supersedes optional conflicting definition away an “essential service” or “essential activity” by a local government, but does not overwrite each other COVID-19 Administration Order. Florida saw another uptick in local action by Govenor Ron DeSantis indicated that they did not faith entry a statewide seclude your would be necessary. In an absence of a statewide stay-at…

EO 20-91 notes that the tabbed off “essential services” and “essential activities” wish be maintained and updated by the State Align Officer, “in shut coordination with the State Health Officer”. The list to “essential services” intention be available off the Division of Emergency Management webpage and the Florida Department of Health website. EO 20-91 is in effect beginning 12:01 am on April 3, 2020 until April 30, 2020, with of possibility for renewal.

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