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Ex. SEC-09-007 Order Primary source read

Industry Operation Guidance: Life-Sustaining Businesses list accompanying the Mar. 19, 2020 Orders closing all businesses that are not life sustaining

Life-Sustaining Business list (version captured Mar. 20, 2020)

Governor Tom Wolf; Secretary of Health Rachel Levine · Pennsylvania (State)

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Jurisdiction
Pennsylvania
Level
State
Authority
35 Pa.C.S. s. 7301(f) (Emergency Management Services Code); 35 P.S. s. 521.5 (Disease Prevention and Control Law); 71 P.S. s. 1403(a)
Issued
2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
Effective
2020-03-19 8:00 p.m. (enforcement from 12:01 a.m. Mar. 21, 2020, extended to Mar. 23, 2020) (read as 2020-03-19)
End
Construction industry groups permitted to resume May 1, 2020 under the Apr. 20, 2020 amendments and the Apr. 23, 2020 guidance (Ex. SEC-09-008); wood product manufacturing and lumber wholesale reopened May 8, 2020 (yellow-phase counties) and later (read as 2020-05-01)
In force
Mar. 19, 2020 to May 1, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Business closureSupply chain
Addressees
  • all construction businesses
  • sawmills and wood product manufacturers
  • lumber and construction materials wholesalers
Functions reached
  • JS all construction stopped
  • SC lumber and wood products closed
  • SB
  • OW
  • BD
  • PM
Collection
Construction SEC-09

Operative words

Construction of Buildings | Residential Building Construction | No; Nonresidential Building Construction | No; Utility Subsystem Construction | No; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction | Land Subdivision | No; Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction | No; Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction | No; Specialty Trade Contractors | Building Equipment Contractors | No; Other Specialty Trade Contractors | No; Sawmills and Wood Preservation | No; Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing | No; Other Wood Product Manufacturing | No; Cement and Concrete Product Manufacturing | Yes; Lumber and Other Construction Materials Merchant Wholesalers | No; Hardware, and Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies | Yes; Building Material and Supplies Dealers | Yes

Enforcement

Governor's order: enforcement by Pennsylvania State Police, local officials, Department of Health, Liquor Control Board and Agriculture; citations, fines and license suspensions (State file PA)

Notes

The clearest single document in the country closing an entire industry by NAICS group; 'In extenuating circumstances, special exemptions will be granted to businesses that are supplying or servicing health care providers.'

Retrieval note

The list was revised several times through April 2020; this is the Mar. 20, 2020 capture.