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Executive Order No. 110 (2020)

Child care centers to close April 1, 2020 unless certified as Emergency Child Care Centers serving children of essential persons exclusively

Governor Philip D. Murphy · New Jersey (State)

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Jurisdiction
New Jersey
Level
State
Authority
N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq.; N.J.S.A. 26:13-1 et seq.; N.J.S.A. 30:5B-1 et seq.
Issued
2020-03-25 Mar. 25, 2020
Effective
2020-03-25 (immediately); closures effective Wednesday, April 1, 2020 (read as 2020-03-25)
End
Rescinded effective 6:00 a.m. June 15, 2020 (EO 149 para. 1) (read as 2020-06-15)
In force
Mar. 25, 2020 to June 15, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Business closureSchools and child careOther
Addressees
  • all child care centers and entities providing regular care for children aged 0-13 (including licensure-exempt programs)
  • the Department of Children and Families
Functions reached
  • EC child care limited to children of essential persons
  • WF workforce of every employer whose staff relied on child care
  • AD enrollment (non-essential families excluded)
  • CB families
Collection
New Jersey NJ

Operative words

Para. 2: "In order to be designated as an Emergency Child Care Center, any person or organization, requesting permission to stay open or resume operations on or after April 1, 2020, shall submit the certification form to the Commissioner of DCF for approval by Friday, March 27, 2020. If through the certification form the person or organization demonstrates that it will provide child care services exclusively to 'essential persons' during the school closure period, and that it will follow all applicable emergency child care standards, the Commissioner DCF shall authorize it to remain open or resume operations as an Emergency Child Care Center." Para. 3: "Any 'child care center', including those as defined in this executive order, that fails to timely certify shall be closed to the public as of Wednesday, April 1, 2020, and remain closed through the school closure period." Para. 5 defines "essential persons" (health care workers including home health, law enforcement and fire, emergency child care staff, essential social services staff, essential government employees unable to work from home, and "[c]ertain critical workers, as defined by the Commissioner of DCF, at essential retail businesses").

Enforcement

Para. 12: N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49 and -50; para. 13: no municipal or county conflicting orders; DCF closure authority (para. 7)

Notes

Child care providers lost their general customer base from April 1 to June 15, 2020; every other employer lost the child care its workforce depended on unless the worker was an "essential person."

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