Skip to content
The COVID Project
  1. Library
  2. Philadelphia
  3. MET-PHL-008

Ex. MET-PHL-008 Order Primary source read

Third Amendment Regarding Additional Permitted Activities (Indoor Dining and Theaters)

Third Amendment Regarding Additional Permitted Activities to the Emergency Order Allowing Limited Reopening of Businesses, Advising Philadelphians That they are Safer at Home, and Establishing Safety Measures to Prevent the Spread of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Further Changes to Modified Green Phase

Mayor James F. Kenney and Health Commissioner Thomas A. Farley, MD, MPH · City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (City)

Open exhibit (PDF, 497 KB)Source (opens in a new tab)
The COVID Project

The record

Jurisdiction
City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Philadelphia · Pennsylvania
Level
City
Authority
Philadelphia Code sections 6-205 and 6-206; Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955
Issued
2020-09-08 Sept. 8, 2020
Effective
2020-09-08
End
Amended Oct. 1, 2020 (Ex. MET-PHL-033); indoor dining prohibited again from Nov. 20, 2020 (Ex. MET-PHL-010) (read as 2020-10-01)
In force
Sept. 8, 2020 to Oct. 1, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q32020 Q4
Limitation types
Business closureCapacity limitEvents and venues
Addressees
  • restaurants, cafes, retail food service businesses, catering halls and event spaces
  • indoor theaters and performance spaces
Functions reached
  • DR dining room at 25 percent
  • BQ banquets and catering halls
  • PE theaters
Collection
Philadelphia MET-PHL

Operative words

As recited and quoted in the Oct. 1, 2020 amendment (Ex. MET-PHL-033): 'Section 1. Operation of Indoor Dining. Indoor on-site dining activities at restaurants, cafes, retail food service businesses, and catering halls and event spaces may operate in the beginning on September 8, 2020, subject to the following:... viii. Occupancy limits and spacing requirements: (1) Indoor occupancy must be limited to 25% of the stated fire code occupancy...'; the Spring 2021 Order recites that on Sept. 8, 2020 the City determined 'it was appropriate to allow indoor dining, movie theaters and performance spaces to resume'

Enforcement

Orders to cease operations; fines under Ex. MET-PHL-070

Notes

Indoor dining in Philadelphia was prohibited from Mar. 16 to Sept. 8, 2020, eleven weeks after the Commonwealth permitted it in the suburban counties

Retrieval note

Scanned; operative terms taken verbatim from the City's Oct. 1, 2020 amendment, which reproduces Section 1(a)(viii), and from the Spring 2021 Order's recitals.

A record of The COVID Project. The instrument's text is the source's; the summary fields are The COVID Project's reading of it. Not legal advice.