The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey
- Level
- State
- Authority
- N.J.S.A. 26:13-1 et seq. (Emergency Health Powers Act); N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq. (Civilian Defense and Disaster Control Act)
- Issued
- 2020-03-21 Mar. 21, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-21 9:00 p.m. (read as 2020-03-21)
- End
- personal care closure lifted June 22, 2020 (EO 154); stay-home rescinded June 9, 2020 (EO 153) (read as 2020-06-22)
- In force
- Mar. 21, 2020 to June 22, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering cap
- Addressees
- all residents
- all businesses
- recreational and entertainment businesses
- personal care businesses
- Functions reached
- SL closed
- CL open as essential retail (laundromat and dry-cleaning retail functions)
- PS pet stores open; grooming closed as non-essential (Administrative Order 2020-10 confirmed in-home personal care closed)
- FH funeral homes essential; gatherings barred (¶ 5)
- CB customer base under stay-home
- WF
- OP telework (¶ 10-11)
- Collection
- Personal Care and Other Services SEC-18
Operative words
9. All recreational and entertainment businesses, including but not limited to the following list, must close to the public as long as this Order remains in effect:... [businesses] that pose a high risk of noncompliance with social distancing guidelines, including but not limited to cosmetology shops; barber shops; beauty salons; hair braiding shops; nail salons; electrology facilities; spas, including day spas and medical spas, at which solely elective and cosmetic medical procedures are performed; massage parlors, tanning salons, tattoo parlors, and public and private social clubs... 6.... Essential retail businesses... i. Retail functions of laundromats and dry-cleaning services;... k. Pet stores.
Enforcement
N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49, -50 (disorderly persons offense; fines and imprisonment recited in the Order)
Notes
The paradigm sector closure: the trades are listed by name; the stay-home paragraph (¶ 2) and gathering prohibition (¶ 5) reached the customer base and funerals.
Retrieval noteParagraph 9 read at text lines 275-352; ¶ 6.i and 6.k at lines 235-241.