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Ex. SEC-11-021 Order Primary source read

Industry Operation Guidance: list of life-sustaining businesses that may continue physical operations (accompanying the Order of the Governor and Order of the Secretary of Health Regarding the Closure of All Businesses That Are Not Life Sustaining, Mar. 19, 2020)

COVID-19 Life Sustaining Business list (Mar. 19, 2020 version)

Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Rachel Levine (list implementing the Orders of Mar. 19, 2020) · Pennsylvania (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Pennsylvania
Level
State
Authority
35 Pa.C.S. § 7301(f); 35 P.S. § 521.5 (Disease Prevention and Control Law); 71 P.S. § 532(a), § 1403(a)
Issued
2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
Effective
2020-03-19 8:00 p.m. (enforcement from Mar. 23, 2020) (read as 2020-03-19)
End
Counties released to Yellow phase May 8, 15, 22, 29 and June 5, 2020; all counties out of Red by June 5, 2020 (read as 2020-06-05)
In force
Mar. 19, 2020 to June 5, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeBusiness closure
Addressees
  • all businesses in Pennsylvania by NAICS industry group
Functions reached
  • WH and CB: five wholesale lines ordered to cease physical operations statewide
  • CB: customers of every wholesaler (non-life-sustaining retail, construction, manufacturing) closed
  • DR/DS: trucking and freight arrangement permitted as life-sustaining, i.e., under the conditions of the later Worker Safety Order (Apr. 15, 2020; Ex. SEC-07-014)
Collection
Logistics, Warehousing and Wholesale SEC-11

Operative words

Column 'May Continue Physical Operations': Wholesale Trade: Furniture and Home Furnishing Merchant Wholesalers - No; Lumber and Other Construction Materials Merchant Wholesalers - No; Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers - No; Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods Merchant Wholesalers - No; Wholesale Electronic Markets and Agents & Brokers - No; Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies, Professional and Commercial Equipment, Metal and Mineral, Electrical and Electronic Goods, Hardware and Plumbing, Machinery Equipment and Supplies, Miscellaneous Durable Goods, Paper, Drugs, Grocery, Farm Product Raw Material, Chemical, Petroleum, Beer Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers - Yes. Transportation and Warehousing: General Freight Trucking - Yes; Specialized Freight Trucking - Yes; Freight Transportation Arrangement - Yes; Support Activities for Road Transportation - Yes; Couriers - Yes; Local Messengers and Local Delivery - Yes; Warehousing and Storage - Yes; Charter Bus Industry - No; Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation - No. Note: 'In extenuating circumstances, special exemptions will be granted to businesses that are supplying or servicing health care providers.'

Enforcement

Orders of Mar. 19, 2020: enforcement by Pennsylvania State Police, local officials, Department of Health, Liquor Control Board and Department of Agriculture; criminal penalties under 35 P.S. § 521.20 and 71 P.S. § 1409 (per the Orders)

Notes

The single best instrument for wholesale: a State ordered named wholesale industry groups to stop physical operations while ordering the carriers that served them to continue. The list was revised Mar. 20, 24 and Apr. 2020 (waiver program); the Mar. 19 version is the one saved.

Retrieval note

The list is saved here because its wholesale and transportation rows are quoted.

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