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Governor McMaster Executive Order No. 2020-17

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March 17, 2020, based on updated information and recommendations from the CDC, the President of the United States, and the White House Coronavirus Task Force, the undersigned issued Executive Order No. 2020-10, directing additional emergency measures in response to the threat posed by COVID-19, to include temporarily prohibiting restaurants from providing certain food services for on-premises consumption and prohibiting events at government facilities that would convene fifty (50) or more people in a single room, area, or other confined indoor or outdoor space

April 1, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., the following “non-essential” businesses, venues, facilities, services, and activities shall be closed to non-employees and shall not be open for access or use by the public—to include members, if access or use is ordinarily restricted to or based on membership—or shall not take place, as applicable:

1. Entertainment venues and facilities as follows:

(a) Night clubs

(b) Bowling alleys

(c) Arcades

(d) Concert venues

(e) Theaters, auditoriums, and performing arts centers

(f) Tourist attractions (including museums, aquariums, and planetariums)

(g) Racetracks

(h) Indoor children’s play areas, with the exception of licensed childcare facilities 

(i) Adult entertainment venues

(j) Bingo halls

(k) Venues operated by social clubs

2. Recreational and athletic facilities and activities as follows:

(a) Fitness and exercise centers and commercial gyms

(b) Spas and public or commercial swimming pools

(c) Group exercise facilities, to include yoga, barre, and spin studios or facilities

(d) Spectator sports

(e) Sports that involve interaction in close proximity to and within less than six (6) feet of another person

(f) Activities that require the use of shared sporting apparatus and equipment

(g) Activities on commercial or public playground equipment

3. Close-contact service providers as follows:

(a) Barber shops

(b) Hair salons

(c) Waxing salons

(d) Threading salons

(e) Nail salons and spas

(f) Body-art facilities and tattoo services

(g) Tanning salons

(h) Massage-therapy establishments and massage services


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