The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey
- Level
- State
- Authority
- N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq.; N.J.S.A. 26:13-1 et seq.
- Issued
- 2020-03-25 Mar. 25, 2020
- Effective
- Certification due Friday, March 27, 2020; centers not certified closed as of Wednesday, April 1, 2020 (read as 2020-03-27)
- End
- Rescinded at 6:00 a.m. on June 15, 2020 by EO 149 para. 1 (read as 2020-06-15)
- In force
- Mar. 27, 2020 to June 15, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureSchools and child care
- Addressees
- all child care centers (N.J.S.A. 30:5B-3) and organizations wishing to operate as Emergency Child Care Centers
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Education and Child Care SEC-15
Operative words
2. In 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... the person or organization demonstrates that it will provide child care services exclusively to 'essential persons' 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. 3. Any 'child care center', 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.
Enforcement
N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49 and -50
Notes
The paradigm emergency-only child-care order: every center in the State either certified to serve essential workers' children exclusively under DCF emergency standards or closed on April 1, 2020; it ran until June 15, 2020.