Alert 04.03.20
Governor DeSantis issues “Safer at Home” Order until April 30, 2020
The order mandates Floridians to stay at home beginning April 3, 2020 and contains an extensive list of exemptions for “essential services.”
Alert
04.03.20
Since the emergence of COVID-19, the County of San Diego has proceeded essentially in lockstep with the State’s efforts to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. On March 19, as the full impact of COVID-19 was becoming evident, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-33-20, which directed all residents to stay home except as needed to maintain operations of federal critical infrastructures. On March 27, the County Public Health Officer adopted EO N-33-20 and its designation of essential critical infrastructures, specified the categories of businesses that may remain open to the public, and set forth the parameters of social distancing.
Less than a week later, and obviously frustrated by his perception that the public was not taking these orders seriously enough, San Diego County Sheriff Gore announced: “The days of trying to get voluntary compliance are really over.”
The San Diego County Public Health Officer issued Addendum 1 on April 2. Addendum 1 imposes tighter restrictions on social distancing and imposes more rigorous sanitation requirements, sets hard deadlines for compliance and establishes fines for non-compliance:
According to Sheriff Gore, "[t]he message is going to go out to all of public safety here in the county that we will start issuing citations[.]”
Businesses must ensure they are aware of and comply with all public health orders related to COVID-19. Those who are found in non-compliance will likely face fines up to $1,000 per day of non-compliance in what is already a challenging economic period. For more information, please reach out to your regular Pillsbury contact or the authors of this Client Alert.
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