{"id":"NJ-011","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New Jersey","state":"NJ","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Philip D. Murphy","authority":"N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq.; N.J.S.A. 26:13-1 et seq.","instrument":"Executive Order No. 122 (2020)","title":"Cessation of non-essential construction; mitigation requirements for essential retail (50 percent occupancy; face coverings), manufacturing, warehousing and essential construction; cleaning protocols for building owners","dateIssued":"2020-04-08","effective":"2020-04-10 at 8:00 p.m. (para. 9)","end":"Para. 2 (construction halt) superseded in full 6:00 a.m. May 18, 2020 (EO 142 para. 3); para. 1 retail rules applied to reopened non-essential retail June 15, 2020 (EO 150 para. 8) and restated for all retail by EO 157 para. 1 (June 26, 2020); glove requirement ended Aug. 27, 2020 (EO 181 para. 6); indoor face-covering and 50 percent rules carried in later orders until capacity limits were removed May 19, 2021 (EO 239) and the indoor public mask requirement lifted May 28, 2021 (EO 242)","startDate":"2020-04-10","endDate":"2020-05-18","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["CLOSE","CAP","MASK","EMP"],"addressees":["essential retail businesses","all construction projects (non-essential ceased; essential conditioned)","manufacturing businesses","warehousing businesses","owners of commercial, industrial and large residential buildings"],"clause":"Para. 1: \u0022Where an essential retail business is permitted to maintain in-person operations... such business must adopt policies that include, at minimum, the following requirements: a. Limit occupancy at 50% of the stated maximum store capacity... k. Require workers and customers to wear cloth face coverings while on the premises... If a customer refuses to wear a cloth face covering for non-medical reasons and if such covering cannot be provided to the individual by the business at the point of entry, then the business must decline entry to the individual\u0022. Para. 2: \u0022The physical operations of all non-essential construction projects shall cease when this Order takes effect.\u0022 [\u0022Essential construction projects\u0022 defined at 2(a)-(n): health care facilities, transportation, utilities, affordable housing, schools, single-family projects underway with crews of five or fewer, residential units with binding occupancy agreements, facilities serving online or essential retail, data centers, social services, law enforcement, government-contracted projects, site-securing work and emergency repairs.] Para. 3: \u0022Manufacturing businesses, warehousing businesses, and businesses engaged in essential construction projects must adopt policies that include, at minimum, the following requirements: a. Prohibit non-essential visitors from entering the worksite; b. Limit worksite meetings, inductions, and workgroups to groups of fewer than ten individuals; c. Require individuals to maintain six feet or more distance between them wherever possible; d. Stagger work start and stop times... g. Require workers and visitors to wear cloth face coverings... i. Limit sharing of tools, equipment, and machinery\u0022. Para. 4: \u0022Immediately separate and send home workers who appear to have symptoms consistent with COVID-19 illness\u0022. Para. 5: building owners \u0022including but not limited to facilities for warehousing, manufacturing, commercial offices, airports, grocery stores, universities, colleges, government, hotels, and residential buildings with at least 50 units, shall adopt policies that, at minimum, implement the following cleaning protocols\u0022.","enforcement":"Para. 8: N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49 and -50; para. 7: duty to cooperate with Administrative Orders issued under the order","functions":["JS job sites closed (non-essential construction) April 10 - May 18, 2020","PF production floor and WH warehouse under staggered shifts, ten-person meeting cap, distancing and masks","SF sales floor at 50 percent with masks","SC supply chain (New Jersey plants, warehouses and ports operating under these conditions)","PM building management cleaning protocols","HR screening and exclusion of symptomatic workers"],"notes":"Manufacturing and logistics: New Jersey plants and warehouses (the Port of New York and New Jersey\u0027s warehouse belt) ran under State-mandated staggered shifts, visitor bans, ten-person meeting caps, distancing, masking and glove rules from April 10, 2020; the construction halt reached every trade for five and a half weeks.","sourceUrl":"https://nj.gov/infobank/eo/056murphy/pdf/EO-122.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":126655,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"NJ","url":"/library/NJ-011","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/NJ-011","citation":"Governor Philip D. Murphy, Executive Order No. 122 (2020) (Apr. 8, 2020) (Ex. NJ-011)","stateName":"New Jersey","related":["DUT-NJ-006","NJ-012","NJ-009","NJ-010","NJ-013","NJ-008","NJ-006","NJ-007","NJ-004","NJ-005","NJ-003","NJ-014"]}