Full Notification

EFFECTIVE 8:00PM FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2020 THE BELOW PROVISIONS OF THE GOVERNORS EXECUTIVE ORDER WILL BE EFFECTIVE STATEWIDE. THE ORDER DETAILS MERCHANT AND SHOPPERS RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Where an essential retail business is permitted to
maintain in-person operations pursuant to Executive Order No. 107
(2020) and any subsequent Administrative Orders, such business
must adopt policies that include, at minimum, the following
requirements:

a. Limit occupancy at 50% of the stated maximum store
capacity, if applicable, at one time;

b. Establish hours of operation, wherever possible,
that permit access solely to high-risk
individuals, as defined by the CDC;

c. Install a physical barrier, such as a shield guard,
between customers and cashiers/baggers wherever
feasible or otherwise ensure six feet of distance
between those individuals, except at the moment of
payment and/or exchange of goods;

d. Require infection control practices, such as
regular hand washing, coughing and sneezing
etiquette, and proper tissue usage and disposal;

e. Provide employees break time for repeated
handwashing throughout the workday;


f. Arrange for contactless pay options, pickup,
and/or delivery of goods wherever feasible. Such
policies shall, wherever possible, consider
populations that do not have access to internet
service;

g. Provide sanitization materials, such as hand
sanitizer and sanitizing wipes, to staff and
customers;

h. Require frequent sanitization of high-touch areas
like restrooms, credit card machines, keypads,
counters and shopping carts;

i. Place conspicuous signage at entrances and
throughout the store, if applicable, alerting
staff and customers to the required six feet of
physical distance;

j. Demarcate six feet of spacing in check-out lines
to demonstrate appropriate spacing for social
distancing; and

k. Require workers and customers to wear cloth face
coverings while on the premises, except where doing
so would inhibit that individual’s health or where
the individual is under two years of age, and
require workers to wear gloves when in contact with
customers or goods. Businesses must provide, at
their expense, such face coverings and gloves for
their employees. If a customer refuses to wear a
cloth face covering for non-medical reasons and if
such covering cannot be provided to the individual
by the business at the point of entry, then the
business must decline entry to the individual,
unless the business is providing medication,

medical supplies, or food, in which case the
business policy should provide alternate methods
of pickup and/or delivery of such goods. Nothing
in the stated policy should prevent workers or
customers from wearing a surgical-grade mask or
other more protective face covering if the
individual is already in possession of such
equipment, or if the business is otherwise required
to provide such worker with more protective
equipment due to the nature of the work involved.
Where an individual declines to wear a face
covering on store premises due to a medical
condition that inhibits such usage, neither the
essential retail business nor its staff shall
require the individual to produce medical
documentation verifying the stated condition.