DEFINITION OF CRITICAL BUSINESSES

  • Adult day care centers
  • Airports
  • Appliance repair personnel
  • Architectural firms
  • Assisted living facilities
  • Automobile dealerships
  • Auto-repair facilities
  • Auto-supply stores
  • Banks
  • Blood banks
  • Building management
  • Building material stores
  • Businesses engaged in food cultivation, including farming, livestock and fishing
  • Bottling plants
  • Businesses providing professional legal or accounting services
  • Businesses providing services to any local, state or federal government pursuant to a contract or order with such government and provided such services relate to a governmental response to COVID-19 crisis
  • Businesses that provide food, shelter, social services and necessities of life for economically disadvantaged or needy individuals
  • Cemeteries
  • Childcare facilities (These are open if facilities are providing services that enable employees exempted in this emergency order to work as permitted)
  • Clinics
  • Commercial lodging establishments
  • Contractors and other trades
  • Convenience stores
  • Crematories
  • Dentists offices
  • Doctors’ offices
  • Dry cleaners
  • Electrical production and distribution services
  • Engineering firms
  • Exterminators

  • Eye care centers
  • Factories
  • Farmers markets
  • Farm and produce stands
  • Financial institutions
  • Firearm and ammunition supply stores
  • Fire and water damage restoration businesses
  • Food banks
  • Fumigators
  • Funeral homes
  • Funeral and cremation services and suppliers of funeral products
  • Gardening stores
  • Gas stations
  • Grocery stores
  • Handlers
  • Hardware stores
  • Healthcare manufacturers and suppliers
  • Home healthcare services providers
  • Home security firms
  • Hospitals
  • Hotels
  • Industrial distribution
  • Insurance firms
  • Landscape companies
  • Land surveying services
  • Laundromats
  • Laundry service providers
  • Liquor stores
  • Logistics providers
  • Mailing businesses
  • Maintenance
  • Manufacturing facilities
  • Media services
  • Medical cannabis facilities
  • Medical equipment
  • Medical transport services
  • Mental Health Professionals
  • Mortuaries
  • Motels
  • Moving, storage, and relocation services
  • Natural gas, water, electric utilities and cable service providers
  • Newspapers
  • Nursing homes
  • Open construction sites
  • Pawn shops
  • Pet boarding facilities

  • Pharmacies
  • Physical Therapists
  • Pool care businesses
  • Private colleges (only to provide critical functions and distance learning)
  • Propane and natural gas services
  • Psychiatrists
  • Public adjusters
  • Radio stations
  • Real Estate Services
  • Rehabilitation facilities
  • Religious services
  • Reproductive health care provider
  • Research and laboratory services
  • Restaurants for take-out only
  • Schools and other entities that provide free food services to students or members of the public (pick-up only)
  • Seaports
  • Shipping services
  • Substance abuse providers
  • Supermarkets
  • Supply chain facilities
  • Technical colleges (only to provide critical functions and distance learning)
  • Telecommunications providers
  • Television stations
  • Temporary vacation rentals (subject to the limitations stated in the Governor’s executive order 20-70)
  • Therapists
  • Trade schools (only to provide critical functions and distance learning)
  • Trucking consolidators
  • University, College or Technical College residence halls, only to the extent needed to accommodate students who cannot return to their homes
  • Urgent Care Centers
  • Veterinarians
  • Warehouses
  • Waste management services