{"id":"NJ-007","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New Jersey","state":"NJ","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Philip D. Murphy","authority":"N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq.; N.J.S.A. 26:13-1 et seq.; N.J.S.A. 30:5B-1 et seq.","instrument":"Executive Order No. 110 (2020)","title":"Child care centers to close April 1, 2020 unless certified as Emergency Child Care Centers serving children of essential persons exclusively","dateIssued":"2020-03-25","effective":"2020-03-25 (immediately); closures effective Wednesday, April 1, 2020","end":"Rescinded effective 6:00 a.m. June 15, 2020 (EO 149 para. 1)","startDate":"2020-03-25","endDate":"2020-06-15","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["SCH","CLOSE","OTHER"],"addressees":["all child care centers and entities providing regular care for children aged 0-13 (including licensure-exempt programs)","the Department of Children and Families"],"clause":"Para. 2: \u0022In order to be designated as an Emergency Child Care Center, any person or organization, requesting permission to stay open or resume operations on or after April 1, 2020, shall submit the certification form to the Commissioner of DCF for approval by Friday, March 27, 2020. If through the certification form the person or organization demonstrates that it will provide child care services exclusively to \u0027essential persons\u0027 during the school closure period, and that it will follow all applicable emergency child care standards, the Commissioner DCF shall authorize it to remain open or resume operations as an Emergency Child Care Center.\u0022 Para. 3: \u0022Any \u0027child care center\u0027, including those as defined in this executive order, that fails to timely certify shall be closed to the public as of Wednesday, April 1, 2020, and remain closed through the school closure period.\u0022 Para. 5 defines \u0022essential persons\u0022 (health care workers including home health, law enforcement and fire, emergency child care staff, essential social services staff, essential government employees unable to work from home, and \u0022[c]ertain critical workers, as defined by the Commissioner of DCF, at essential retail businesses\u0022).","enforcement":"Para. 12: N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49 and -50; para. 13: no municipal or county conflicting orders; DCF closure authority (para. 7)","functions":["EC child care limited to children of essential persons","WF workforce of every employer whose staff relied on child care","AD enrollment (non-essential families excluded)","CB families"],"notes":"Child care providers lost their general customer base from April 1 to June 15, 2020; every other employer lost the child care its workforce depended on unless the worker was an \u0022essential person.\u0022","sourceUrl":"https://nj.gov/infobank/eo/056murphy/pdf/EO-110.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":95929,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"NJ","url":"/library/NJ-007","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/NJ-007","citation":"Governor Philip D. Murphy, Executive Order No. 110 (2020) (Mar. 25, 2020) (Ex. NJ-007)","stateName":"New Jersey","related":["NJ-006","NJ-004","NJ-005","NJ-003","NJ-008","NJ-002","NJ-009","NJ-010","NJ-012","NJ-001","NJ-011","NJ-013"]}