The order defines essential businesses as:
a. Healthcare Operations and Essential Infrastructure as defined in this Order.
b. Grocery and beverage stores, certified farmers’ market, farm and produce stands, supermarkets, food banks, convenience stores, catering, and other similar establishments. This includes stores that sell groceries and also sell other non-grocery products, and products necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation, and essential operation of residences.
c. Food cultivation, including farming, livestock, and fishing.
d. Businesses that provide food, shelter, and social services, and other necessities of life for the economically disadvantaged or otherwise needy individuals.
e. Newspapers, television, radio, and other media services.
f. Gas stations and auto supply, auto repair, and related facilities.
g. Banks and related financial institutions.
h. Hardware stores, home and business repair, construction (commercial and residential), and facilities design businesses.
i. Insurance businesses and services.
j. Plumbers, electricians, exterminators, cleaning, janitorial, property management, and other service providers who provide services that are necessary to maintaining the safety, sanitation, and essential operation of residences, Essential Activities, and Essential Business.
k. Businesses providing mailing, shipping and logistic services, including post office boxes.
l. Laundromats, dry cleaners, and laundry service providers.
m. Electronic, cell phone, and internet retail businesses.
n. Restaurants and other facilities that prepare and serve food, but only for delivery or carry out. Schools and other entities that typically provide free food services to students or members of the public may continue to do so under this Order on the condition that the food is provided to students or members of the public on a pick-up and take-away basis only. Schools and other entities that provide food services under this exemption shall not permit the food to be eaten at the site where it is provided, or at any other gathering site.
o. Manufacturing companies, distributors, and supply chain companies producing, storing, shipping, and supplying essential products and services in and for industries such as pharmaceutical, technology, biotechnology, healthcare, medical supplies, shipping and paper supplies, chemicals and sanitization, waste pickup and disposal, agriculture, food and beverage, transportation, energy, steel and steel products, petroleum and fuel, mining, construction, national defense, communications, as well as products used by other Essential Businesses.
p. Businesses that supply other Essential Businesses with the support or supplies necessary to operate or facilitate individuals to work from home, such as office supplies.
q. Businesses that provide goods or services exclusively through curbside pick-up, drive-thru, shipment, or delivery. This shall include any business that did not previously provide goods or services in this manner, but develops a procedure to provide its goods and services in this manner or are temporarily permitted to do so through a regulation of the City.
r. Transportation services including buses, airlines, taxis, and other private transportation providers (such as Uber and Lyft) providing transportation services necessary for Essential Activities and other purposes expressly authorized in this Order.
s. Home-based care for seniors, adults, or children, people with developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, substances use disorders, and/or mental illnesses.
t. Residential facilities and shelters for seniors, adults, children, people with developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, substance use disorders, and/or mental illness.
u. Professional services, such as legal or accounting services, when necessary to assist in compliance with legally mandated activities.
v. Childcare and daycare facilities, prioritizing services to employees of businesses exempted in this Order to work as permitted. Daycare and childcare facilities must use Social Distancing and COVID-19 risk mitigation practices in their operations, and have no more than 10 people in a room.
w. Hotels and motels, to the extent used for lodging and delivery or carry-out food services.
x. Funeral homes, crematoriums, mortuaries, and burial services.
y. Private waste removal and recycling services.
z. Blood donor operations.
aa. All other critical infrastructure businesses not otherwise listed but identified in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Memorandum of Identification of Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers during COVID-19 Response issued on March 19, 2020.
bb. Any other business or service that the City Manager determines is essential for the safety and public health of the City.