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Ex. SEC-11-020 Order Primary source read

Executive Order No. 122

Ceasing non-essential construction; mitigation requirements for essential retail, manufacturing and warehousing businesses; cleaning protocols for buildings

Governor Philip D. Murphy · New Jersey (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
New Jersey
Level
State
Authority
N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq. (Civilian Defense and Disaster Control Act); N.J.S.A. 26:13-1 et seq. (Emergency Health Powers Act); EO 103 (Mar. 9, 2020)
Issued
2020-04-08 Apr. 8, 2020
Effective
2020-04-10 8:00 p.m. (read as 2020-04-10)
End
Construction provisions superseded by EO 142 (eff. May 18, 2020); workplace requirements continued and were superseded by EO 192 (eff. Nov. 5, 2020), lifted by EO 243 (May 24, 2021) (read as 2020-12-31)
In force
Apr. 10, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
Limitation types
Business closureGathering capFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • manufacturing businesses
  • warehousing businesses
  • essential construction
  • essential retail
  • owners of commercial and industrial buildings
Functions reached
  • WH warehouse and dock (distancing, staggered shifts, visitor ban, face coverings and gloves, common-area limits)
  • DR drivers as 'visitors' at customer docks (CS)
  • MT maintenance shops
  • OP office
  • WF symptomatic-worker exclusion
  • SC/CS shippers' plants under the same rules
Collection
Logistics, Warehousing and Wholesale SEC-11

Operative words

3. Manufacturing 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 where practicable...; e. Stagger lunch breaks and work times where practicable to enable operations to safely continue while utilizing the least number of individuals possible at the site; f. Restrict the number of individuals who can access common areas...; g. Require workers and visitors to wear cloth face coverings... and require workers to wear gloves while on the premises. Businesses must provide, at their expense, such face coverings and gloves for their employees.... 4. All essential retail businesses, warehousing businesses, manufacturing businesses... must also adopt policies that include, at minimum, the following requirements: a. Immediately separate and send home workers who appear to have symptoms consistent with COVID-19 illness...

Enforcement

Para. 8: penalties under N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49 and -50 (disorderly persons offense; fine up to $1,000, imprisonment up to six months)

Notes

The clearest State command addressed to 'warehousing businesses' by name; also para. 5 cleaning protocols for owners of buildings 'including but not limited to facilities for warehousing'. Reached every New Jersey distribution center (Port Newark-Elizabeth hinterland, Exit 8A corridor).

Retrieval note

Text read; paragraphs 3-5, 8 and 9 quoted from the PDF.

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