Governor Murphy Signs Executive Order to Cease All Non-Essential Construction Projects and Imposes Additional Mitigation Requirements on Essential Retail Businesses and Industries to Limit the Spread of COVID-19
TRENTON — Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 122, ceasing all non-essential construction projects and imposing additional mitigation requirements on essential retail businesses and essential industries to limit the spread of COVID-19 in New Jersey. The order also outlines specific protections and policies for all essential retail, manufacturing, and warehousing businesses, as well as businesses engaged in essential construction projects.
“We must continue to work together to flatten the curve of new COVID-19 cases in New Jersey,” said Governor Murphy. “By ceasing all non-essential construction projects and imposing additional mitigation requirements on essential businesses, we are furthering our aggressive efforts to enforce social distancing and limiting our public interactions to only the most essential in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19.”
Governor Murphy’s executive order directs the following:
Essential retail businesses that are still permitted to operate under Executive Order No. 107 (2020) must adopt the following policies:
- Limit occupancy at 50 percent of the stated maximum store capacity, if applicable, at one time;
- Establish hours of operation, wherever possible, that permit access solely to high-risk individuals, as defined by the CDC;
- 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;
- Require infection control practices, such as regular hand washing, coughing and sneezing etiquette, and proper tissue usage and disposal;
- Provide employees break time for repeated handwashing throughout the workday;
- 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;
- Provide sanitization materials, such as hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes, to staff and customers;
- Require frequent sanitization of high-touch areas like restrooms, credit card machines, keypads, counters and shopping carts;
- Place conspicuous signage at entrances and throughout the store, if applicable, alerting staff and customers to the required six feet of physical distance;
- Demarcate six feet of spacing in check-out lines to demonstrate appropriate spacing for social distancing;
- 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 if 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.
The physical operations of all non-essential construction projects shall cease at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 10. “Essential construction projects” include the following:
- Projects necessary for the delivery of health care services, including but not limited to hospitals, other health care facilities, and pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
- Transportation projects, including roads, bridges, and mass transit facilities or physical infrastructure, including work done at airports or seaports.
- Utility projects, including those necessary for energy and electricity production and transmission, and any decommissioning of facilities used for electricity generation.
- Residential projects that are exclusively designated as affordable housing.
- Projects involving pre-K-12 schools, including but not limited to projects in Schools Development Authority districts, and projects involving higher education facilities.
- Projects already underway involving individual single-family homes, or an individual apartment unit where an individual already resides, with a construction crew of 5 or fewer individuals. This includes additions to single-family homes such as solar panels.
- Projects already underway involving a residential unit for which a tenant or buyer has already entered into a legally binding agreement to occupy the unit by a certain date, and construction is necessary to ensure the unit’s availability by that date.
- Projects involving facilities at which any one or more of the following takes place: the manufacture, distribution, storage, or servicing of goods or products that are sold by online retail businesses or essential retail businesses, as defined by Executive Order No. 107 (2020) and subsequent Administrative Orders adopted pursuant to that Order.
- Projects involving data centers or facilities that are critical to a business’s ability to function.
- Projects necessary for the delivery of essential social services, including homeless shelters.
- Any project necessary to support law enforcement agencies or first responder units in their response to the COVID-19 emergency.
- Any project that is ordered or contracted for by Federal, State, county, or municipal government, or any project that must be completed to meet a deadline established by the Federal government.
- Any work on a non-essential construction project that is required to physically secure the site of the project, ensure the structural integrity of any buildings on the site, abate any hazards that would exist on the site if the construction were to remain in its current condition, remediate a site, or otherwise ensure that the site and any buildings therein are appropriately protected and safe during the suspension of the project.
- Any emergency repairs necessary to ensure the health and safety of residents.
Manufacturing businesses, warehousing businesses, and businesses engaged in essential construction projects must adopt policies that include, at minimum, the following requirements:
- Prohibit non-essential visitors from entering the worksite;
- Limit worksite meetings, inductions, and workgroups to groups of fewer than ten individuals;
- Require individuals to maintain six feet or more distance between them wherever possible;
- Stagger work start and stop times where practicable to limit the number of individuals entering and leaving the worksite concurrently;
- 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;
- Restrict the number of individuals who can access common areas, such as restrooms and breakrooms, concurrently;
- Require workers and visitors to wear cloth face coverings, in accordance with CDC recommendations, while on the premises, except where doing so would inhibit the individual’s health or the individual is under two years of age, and require workers to wear gloves while on the premises. Businesses must provide, at their expense, such face coverings and gloves for their employees. If a visitor 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 businesses must decline entry to the individual. Nothing in the stated policy should prevent workers or visitors 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 businesses 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 the premises due to a medical condition that inhibits such usage, neither the business nor its staff shall require the individual to produce medical documentation verifying the stated condition.
- Require infection control practices, such as regular hand washing, coughing and sneezing etiquette, and proper tissue usage and disposal;
- Limit sharing of tools, equipment, and machinery;
- Provide sanitization materials, such as hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes, to workers and visitors; and
- Require frequent sanitization of high-touch areas like restrooms, breakrooms, equipment, and machinery.
All essential retail businesses, warehousing businesses, manufacturing businesses, and businesses performing essential construction projects must also adopt policies that include, at minimum, the following requirements:
- Immediately separate and send home workers who appear to have symptoms consistent with COVID-19 illness upon arrival at work or who become sick during the day; and
- Promptly notify workers of any known exposure to COVID-19 at the worksite, consistent with the confidentiality requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and any other applicable laws;
- Clean and disinfect the worksite in accordance with CDC guidelines when a worker at the site has been diagnosed with COVID-19 illness;
- Continue to follow guidelines and directives issued by the New Jersey Department of Health, the CDC and the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, as applicable, for maintaining a clean, safe and healthy work environment.
Where a business is authorized to maintain in-person operations, owners of buildings used for commercial, industrial or other enterprises, including but not limited to facilities for warehousing, manufacturing, commercial offices, airports, grocery stores, universities, colleges, government, hotels, and residential buildings with at least 50 units, shall adopt policies that, at minimum, implement the following cleaning protocols in areas where operations are conducted:
- Clean and disinfect high-touch areas routinely in accordance with CDC guidelines, particularly in spaces that are accessible to staff, customers, tenants, or other individuals, and ensure cleaning procedures following a known or potential exposure in a facility are in compliance with CDC recommendations;
- Otherwise maintain cleaning procedures in all other areas of the facility; and
- Ensure that the facility has a sufficient number of workers to perform the above protocols effectively and in a manner that ensures the safety of occupants, visitors, and workers.
The order will take effect on Friday, April 10, at 8:00 p.m.
A copy of Executive Order No. 122 is available here.
He sucks!
no you suck !! talk about what you can do. no one is 100% perfect stop trying to hinder. try helping.Stop hate mongering
This stops NOTHING!
EVERY FUCKING PROJECT HAS LOW INCOME HOUSING SO NONE OF THEM WILL.STOP
Christopher Giarraffa Lakewood has numerous condo and single family homes currently being built & many that are clearing lots.
Wonder why Murphy okayed low housing to continue building?????
What is considered non essential construction? What about carpenters union? Thanking in advance.
Kym Bennett Brander depends on the job ……but basically nothjng will stop
Ice cream man is allowed ? But renovations and repairs to homes aren’t. Makes sense
Joseph Todaro very little construction will stop the list of exceptions is ridiculous…would have made more sense just to list what actually had to stop
Joseph Todaro if you read the actual full executive order, he really stopped nothing but managed to strap a list of safety policies on the construction companies that will be almost impossible to adhere to. Way to go Phil, just continuing your proven track record of fucking things up for NJ
Joseph Todaro seriously right?!?! Such a joke! What is the ice cream man going to do throw the ice cream at my kids and how my supposed to get the money to him such a moron this governor
Severe government overreach. Such a disgusting person.
Mike Ward he’s slowly killing everything in this state.
Brian Michael of course he wants a welfare state.
Mike Ward well said!agreed!
wearing his boyfriends jacket…& his mask…. incorrectly
Jeff Nemeth I took this pic from the morning news last week. ????????????
jump on stage like a moron if u are a partisan phony….
Patty, like this page
Mike Malinowski
God Bless Gov Phil
There are still so many variables and a lot of grey areas in this…good job Murphy you friggin ass clown!
I am sure if he was Republican and did the same job ,you would say “your doing a great job” we are in a crisis here. come together in a non partisan way and lets get things done the way it”s should be .. Stop the Hate. …there are soooo many trolls on this forum.(just an Observation)
We will be like pre worldwar 2 Germany soon
Andrew Simons you all do know that Funny enough, Murph was the Ambassador to Germany appointed by Obama from 2009 – 2013 & also had an very large stake of things in Hong Kong & China thru Goldman Sachs.
Close everything down to stop the spread but keep allowing Lakewood to host weddings and parties , he sounds like the smartest retard in the room . Lakewood has just under 1000 corona cases the surrounding towns with a high orthodox population are right behind Lakewood . How is this not being addressed still !
El Capitán 1015
Fuck Phil Murphy
In kommendant Murphy’s land. A star on your jacket means you dont get prosecuted
He’s s idiot
Meanwhile my boyfriend is still working in Edison building a hotel (essential??????) putting me at risk everyday. He already took huge paycut..still working 6 days a week..and a contractor already tested positive. Today his job is to take pictures of everyone on site wearing masks. If they don’t have one by Monday they can’t work. Brilliant ????????????. While the corporate bosses monitor from the safety of their homes. Greed at its finest ????
Fran Mack so. ? You realize people have zero income and you’re actually bitching that he’s getting a paycheck GFY
Your kidding right. It’s NOT essential. You can dig yourself out of debt but you can’t dig yourself out of a grave. I lost EVERYTHING as start up limo business 911 and I survived. We need to help one another. All the money in the world can’t buy your health! Stay safe ???????? (did you read the part he was around someone POSITIVE ????)
Bri Pesce Bradford Applegate
He’s a idiot they cant even talk right
Why don’t he close down Lakewood let them stay the fuck there the cases are so high in that town
Screw phil Murphy
Another executive order. Hi Ho Hitler.
Mary Dee Grow exactly
He should sign an order to NOT allow all these morons to wear gloves in these essential stores!!!!! All they’re doing is crops contaminating everything!!!! And he’s worried about a effing park out in fresh air!?????? WTF???!!!!!
Kimberly Stein-Pereira crops contaminating? Wtf is that?
Kimberly Stein-Pereira if everyone in this state went to park, there would be a problem. Not too sure what’s so hard to understand about the EO.
Stephanie Youmans forgive me for the spellcheck- cross!!! Chill the F out
James Kreidberg I understand the EO just fine. I don’t go out – I stay home- my daughter is the nurse that has to take care of all these fuckers that can’t listen and follow rules!
Kimberly Stein-Pereira I hear ya!
Christopher Perry Jr what does this mean?? Lol
Popped in for the comments and memes. As usual, not disappointed!
Hos get a little nuts with this
Get him out of office ASAP. Please.
Joe Blozen
As a high rush individual, how as I to prove it to food shop at the special shopping hours?
This guy is something else he doesn’t do anything about the people that are causing the real problem!! He has
Totally ignored it and blames everybody else!!!
Deborah Pante’ and who is causing the real problem?
Stephanie Youmans the Hasidic population of Lakewood. Direct enough for you?
Abe Froman they stay within their own community, how are they the problem?
Stephanie Youmans okay, #1 that’s complete bs. They traffic HEAVILY between there and Brooklyn. That’s one place among many. The also aren’t limited to Lakewood as they live in also Jackson, Howell, Toms River and Brick. They also live further than that from Lakewood. But ALL those people in ALL those areas travel to and from Lakewood. That’s the epicenter. And they do NOT care that the we’ve been asked not to.
Stephanie Youmans You are kidding me right? They shop in their own community! You are nuts ! They shop in Toms River & Bricktown that’s why these towns have high numbers! Obviously you have never been to Coscos in Bricktown! Is that shopping in their community I don’t think so…
Abe Froman So true.They can whatever they want and get away with it.
Barbara Chmara You forgot about going back and forth from Brooklyn to Lakewood, stopping for gas and whatever else they need. Going to visiting family, lets see when you see a bunch of cars in driveway and in front of house with plates from New York and New Jersey when New York is the hot spot. So where is part of a big problem?
Abe Froman and they shop.in surrounding towns. I dont care who is not following jewish catholic white brown black green purple should all have consequences. Some just seem to need to go to jail in order to listen. The charges will.go away as they always do
Stephanie Youmans Are you for real !1? They shop in ALL the stores you and I shop in. Staying in their own community !! HA
They don’t shop in my stores. And just because Lakewood’s numbers are high doesn’t mean it’s just the hasidic community, you do realize there are other people that live there right?
All he does is contradict what everyone else is saying…..he says the numbers are going up …when the doctors and scientist are saying it’s been going down. Which is good news … He never focuses on the positive . Fuck him …do something about Lakewood instead of giving them money
Sharon Pav he gave Lakewood a compliment of no videos of them leaking out yesterday lmao. But he will never put pressure on Lakewood.
Jamaal Armstrong yes because he has Facebook shut down any sites that post the videos.
Shari Brucker Stopera 100 percent agree with you
Shari Brucker Stopera of course he does
Jamaal Armstrong
Sharon Pav Why don’t they live and abide the same laws we mericans livewith
Sharon Pav unbelievable!
Sharon Pav oh you didn’t hear? Lakewood is getting funds, I think 3.3 million and another 1.8 million. Yea, they are getting money because they have the most cases in Ocean Co.
Unnecessary
Lawless jerk off
All you people can do better? Shut up all you arm chair Governors and let the man do his job. NO ONE has ever had to deal with something of this magnitude before. He is trying his best with what he has.
Stephanie Youmans His best would be to get Lakewood under control! But no he won’t even name that town in his press conferences! Get the facts..
Get the facts…wow that’s definitely one. You got me there. I’m not watching the news AT ALL. ????????♀️
Stephanie Youmans
Keep drinking the Kool Aid….he is a clueless bufoon.
Robert Smith if you can do better, please run for Governor.
Stephanie Youmans
Multitudes of People could do better than this Jackass.
I hope governor murphy gets the rona
Kelly Osterman LaFrance terrible comment
Nicole Worth oh well ????♀️
Fuck him
He has no clue.
I’m not a Murphy fan but you try to do better. Shit up and we will get through this.
I’m not defending him or anything, but I’d like to see all of the complainers on this page do a better job at everything. Probably couldn’t ????????♀️
If u read his EO you should come to realize this guy has no clue
Thank God we have a Gov that leads
Will Capriotti
You must be Drunk as Hell
Lyndsey Stross
Joe Blozen
How about enforcing what is in place instead of adding to the confusion and panic!!!!
Total asswipe, he has no business holding Ofiice.
Murphy is a Jew loving jerkoff !
Joe Neswick Jr you make yourself look like trash.
If u cane do better run for office
Pegster Serpico we aren’t allowed to. Only the rich can hold political office
We’re going to meet a ton of enforcement officers to follow these laws
thank you for trying to help us
Some of you should go outside and lick a handrail or two.
This guy sucks and his executive orders don’t mean shit !!!
I still go to work everyday delivering to bullshit jobs when they should all be shut down
I poured a very essential pad for a guy’s shed in Point Pleasant today, feel so accomplished ????
Marc Scalise at least it wasn’t a pool ????♀️
Marcos Ortiz
Jerkoff
I really feel for the people left with no income to even buy food or other necessities with no end in sight.
I love all the hate for Murphy on here when he has stepped up and is doing everything possible for nj residents from the beginning but have no negative comments about how trump screwed this up nationally from the beginning and continues to do so by not issuing a national stay at home order because its money over lives for him and the GOP. Look at Florida. You want to talk about a disaster look at the nitwit desantis, now that’s a screw up.
Sandra Petroni Antonellis Florida is a complete mess. What an idiot that guy is ????
Of course … everything is always Trump’s fault!
Sandra Petroni Antonellis yup Trump’s fault…come up with something new.
Sandra Petroni Antonellis
Dave Frick you’re an idiot. Just what I expected.
Karan Rae Koller well he’s the commander in chief. So yeah. You all would b quick to blame Obama and you know it. So yeah
Bobby Pomykala dont need to come up with something new. He’s the president. It’s all on him
Dave Frick maybe u should update your figures.
Karan Rae Koller of course expect u to be in denial but the proof is everywhere. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timeline-president-donald-trump-changing-statements-on-coronavirus/
Karan Rae Koller I’m sure you’ll say its fake news but ur wrong. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273
Sandra Petroni Antonellis
They are also marking COVID-19 deaths if people have vivid symptoms and aren’t even tested positive and die to spike numbers to continue the fear. So yes. That is in essence fake news.
Sandra Petroni Antonellis
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm
Numbers from the CDC site are only saying less than 5000 deaths. Wonder why that is. And they also explain presumed covid19 deaths. More info backing that up right on this cdc link
Christopher Danielson I saw something different numbers today on cdc website today. And they actually that states are reporting daily and those numbers are the numbers to go by for accuracy.
Christopher Danielson
Christopher Danielson
Christopher Danielson give me a break w this doctor. Why is he the only one out of all the doctors in the US saying this? I guess the other countries impacted are told to do the same thing. Please
Sandra Petroni Antonellis cdc on my link says 49xx your cdc link says 16xxx deaths but your first link said 102xxx deaths. So clearly somethjng is wrong here. You can’t argue that they aren’t saying it’s a covid death even though it’s only symptoms and not tested proven. And he was probably not supposed to talk about it or other links are being suppressed. You have to remember censorship online is incredible
Kenny Gerisch
Bravo PhilDO!! B-R-A-V-O!! ????
This is all in trump, like it or not. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273
Do you know Murphy also slipped in that if your caught speeding in New Jersey during this crisis it’s a mandatory court appearance. Just another way to get 35 bucks from your wallet
David Quinones just another way to keep our officers safe when they don’t have to walk up to the vehicle and touch your documents. They can pull up and get your plate and zoom off. I see your point but I think this is what they were aiming for
They are still stopping people and getting documents.
Christopher Danielson meanwhile ..in my town…3 cops for a downed tree on Bikepath ????
Enough already!
So what construction did he stop it seems like you could do anything
Jackass ….but you get what you vote for.