-Essential Critical Infrastructure: Everything listed in the CISA guidance on
essential critical infrastructure workforce,v2.0 www.tdem.texas.gov/essentialservices) which essential critical services fall into
the following general categories: (1) Healthcare/Public Health (not
elective procedures), (2) Law Enforcement, Public Safety and Other First
Responders, (3) Food and Agriculture, (4) Energy (electricity industry,
petroleum industry, natural gas, propane and other liquid fuels), (5) Water
and Wastewater, (6) Transportation and Logistics, (7) Public Works and
Infrastructure Support Services, (8) Communications and Information
Technology, (9) Other Community or Government Based Operations and Essential
Functions, (10) Critical Manufacturing, (11) Hazardous Materials, (12)
Financial Services, (13) Chemical, (14) Defense Industrial Base, (15)
Commercial Facilities, (16) Residential/Shelter Facilities and Services, and
(17) Hygiene Products and Services.
-Religious Services: Religious
services conducted in churches, congregations, and houses of worship. Such religions services should be conducted
in accordance with the Guidelines for Houses of Worship During the COVID-19 Crisis,
as promulgated by the attorney general and governor as follows: (1) Houses of worship should conduct as
many of their activities as possible remotely. Services that houses of worship cannot
conduct remotely should be conducted in accordance with guidance from the
White House and the CDC as follows: (a) instruct sick employees, volunteers
and guests to stay home, (b) practice social distancing by maintaining
appropriate distance between people, (c) maintain good hygiene by washing
your hands frequently, using hand sanitizer, using your elbow to cover
coughs, and not touching your face; (d) implement environmental cleanliness
and sanitization practices, and (e) clean and disinfect work areas
frequently. In addition, like
providers of other essential services, houses of worship are to follow
additional guidance from the White House and CDC whenever possible. (2) Houses of worship should help to slow
the spread of the virus and may use creativity and consider implementing the
following practices: (a) holding “drive-in” style services, (b) provide
communion or a blessing through a similar drive-up service, (c) encourage all
attendees who are 65 and above to stay home and watch the services online, or
provide a “senior service” exclusively for attendees 65 and above to attend
in person, (d) ask all attendees who have an underlying at-risk health
condition to stay home and watch the services online, (e) equip ushers and
greeters with gloves and masks, (f) consider keeping child care closed,
unless the house of worship can comply with CDC guidelines for child care
facilities, (g) ensure all attendees sanitize their hands and put on a mask
before entering the building, (h) ensure attendees sit with their family
unit, use social distancing between each unit, and, if necessary, add more
service times to facilitate distancing, (i) clergy should dismiss attendees
by family unit, maintaining social distancing, (k) staff should sanitize
seats and frequently touched services between services, (l) consider
refraining from passing collection plates and instead provide a central
collection box in the building or encourage online giving, and (m) consider
how the sacraments can be administered without attendees having to touch the
same surfaces and objects.
-Essential Retail: (1) Food service providers, including
grocery stores, warehouse stores, big-box stores, bodegas, liquor stores, gas
stations and convenience stores, farmers’ markets that sell food products and
household staples, (2) Food cultivation, including farming, fishing, and
livestock, (3) Businesses that ship or deliver groceries, food, goods or
services directly to residences, (4) Restaurants and other facilities that
prepare and serve food, but only for delivery or carry out (the restriction
of delivery and carry out does not apply to cafes and restaurants located
within hospitals and medical facilities), (5) Schools and other entities that
typically provide free services to students or members of the public on a
pick-up and take-away basis only, (6) Laundromats, dry cleaners, and laundry
service providers, (7) Gas stations, auto-supply, auto and bicycle repair,
hardware stores, and related facilities, (8) Businesses that supply products
needed for people to work from home.
-Providers of Basic Necessities to
Economically Disadvantaged Populations: Businesses that provide food,
shelter and social services, and other necessities of life for economically
disadvantaged or otherwise needy individuals.
-Essential Services Necessary to Maintain
Essential Operations of Residences or Other Essential Businesses:
(1) Trash and recycling collection,
processing and disposal, (2) Mail and shipping services, (3) Building
cleaning, maintenance and security, (4) Warehouse/distribution and
fulfillment, (5) Storage for essential businesses, (6) Funeral homes,
crematoriums and cemeteries, (7) Plumbers, electricians, exterminators and
other service providers who provide services that are necessary to
maintaining the safety, sanitation and essential operations of residences and
providers of Essential Services, (8) Professional services (such as legal or
accounting services) when necessary to assist in compliance with legally
mandated activities, (9) Businesses that supply providers of Essential
Services with support or supplies needed to operate
-News Media: Newspapers, television, radio and other
media services.
-Childcare Services: Childcare
facilities providing services that enable employees exempted from the Amended
Shelter in Place Order to work as permitted.
-Auto Sales: Auto-dealerships, for
in-person mechanical services or to complete an online transaction or an
appointment-only basis provided that the same be carried out in compliance
with the rules for essential retail establishments set out in Exhibit “A” of
the Dallas County Order accessible at http://www.dallascounty.org/Assets/uploads/docs/covid-19/orders-media/040220-AmendedOrder.pdf.
-Reopened Retail Services: Starting at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, April
24, 2020, retail services that are not “essential services” but that may
be provided through pick-up, delivery by mail, or delivery to the customer’s
doorstep in strict compliance with the terms required by DSHS (located here www.dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus).
-Engaging in essential daily activities:
Essential daily activities, such as the following, are permitted so long
as the necessary the necessary social distancing precautions are maintained
and in-person contact with people who are not in the same household are
minimized to the fullest extent possible: (1) tasks essential to the
health and safety of your family, household members or pets (ie: obtaining
medical supplies/medication, visiting a health care professional, obtaining
supplies needed to work from home), (2) to obtain necessary services or
supplies for yourself, your family, your household members, your pets or to
delivery those services or supplies to others (ie: food, pet supplies,
household consumer products and products necessary to maintain the safety,
sanitation and essential operation of residences), (3) to engage in outdoor
activity (ie: walking, biking, hiking, running, fishing, hunting), (4) to care
for a family member or pet in another household.
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- Businesses who do not meet one of the allowable exclusions
referenced in the “allowed during shelter in place” column.
-Activities that do not meet one of the allowable exclusions
referenced in the “allowed during shelter in place” column.
-All public or private gatherings of any number of people
occurring outside a single household or living unit unless allowable under an
exclusion referenced in the “allowed during shelter in place” column.
-Elective medical, surgical, dental and veterinary procedures
(hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, dental offices, veterinary offices
and other medical facilities will identify procedures that are deemed
“elective”) as determined by healthcare providers in accordance with
Executive Order GA-15.
-Outdoor activity that does not comply with social distancing
requirements of six feet (i.e.: pickup basketball games, sports practices, outdoor
play dates).
-Exercise gyms and similar facilities.
-Massage establishments.
-Tattoo studios and piercing studios.
- Cosmetology studios (including, without limitation, hair
salons, barbershops, nail salons, tanning salons, spas and the like).
-Visits to nursing homes, state supported living centers,
assisted living facilities, or long-term health care facilities (unless to
provide critical assistance as determined by the TX Health and Human Services
Commission).
-Pet grooming services, including mobile pet grooming services,
are not Essential Services and may not remain open unless information from
TDEM advises otherwise. (While Hunt County previously counted pet grooming as
an essential activity, a change in status of this activity was necessitated
by new information).
-Vapor (Vape) shops and CBD retailers are not Essential Services
and may not remain open for normal operations, but starting at 12:01 a.m. on
Friday, April 24, 2020 may reopen as a Reopened Service for retail services
provided through pick-up, delivery by mail or delivery to the customer’s
doorstep in strict compliance with the terms required by DSHS.
-Car washes (with or without employees onsite) are not Essential
Services and may not remain open.
-Tobacco stores that do not also provide check cashing and bill
pay, business services or grocery items are not Essential Services and may
not remain open for normal operations, but starting at 12:01 a.m. on Friday,
April 24, 2020 may reopen as a Reopened Service for retail services provided
through pick-up, delivery by mail or delivery to the customer’s doorstep in
strict compliance with the terms required by DSHS.
-Golf clubs, country clubs and the like are not Essential
Services and may not remain open except for the limited purposes of (1)
provision of food services in line with the take-out rules elsewhere in this
guidance and (2) golf cart rental in compliance with the directive in the
Amended Shelter in Place order that golf carts be fully-sanitized after each
user comes into contact with the equipment.
-Saddlery businesses are do not meet an Essential Service
exception and may not remain open for normal operations, but starting at
12:01 a.m. on Friday, April 24, 2020 may reopen as a Reopened Service for
retail services provided through pick-up, delivery by mail or delivery to the
customer’s doorstep in strict compliance with the terms required by DSHS.
- Recreational drives in the car are not an essential activity
and are not permitted.
-Apparel, clothing and shoe stores do not meet an Essential
Service exception and may not remain open for normal operations, but starting
at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, April 24, 2020 may reopen as a Reopened Service for
retail services provided through pick-up, delivery by mail or delivery to the
customer’s doorstep in strict compliance with the terms required by DSHS.
-Furniture stores, mattress stores and the like do not meet an Essential
Service exception and may not remain open for normal operations, but starting
at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, April 24, 2020 may reopen as a Reopened Service for
retail services provided through pick-up, delivery by mail or delivery to the
customer’s doorstep in strict compliance with the terms required by DSHS.
-Camping, in a tent or otherwise and whether in Hunt County or
another county, is not an essential activity and is not permitted unless your
camp site is on your property.
-Yard sales, patio sales, garage sales and the like do not meet
an Essential Service and are not permitted.
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-Businesses that provide packs, shipping and
business services (ie: copy services, fax services, etc.) fall within an Essential
Service exception and are permitted.
--Businesses that repair motor vehicles,
including RVs, motorcycles, ATVs, watercraft and other means of
transportation are Essential Services and may remain open.
-Tobacco stores that provide check cashing
and bill payment, grocery items and/or businesses services, or are operated
in conjunction with a gas station or convenience store are Essential Services
and may remain open.
-Landscape and lawn maintenance services are
Essential Services may remain open.
-HVAC installation, service and maintenance are
Essential Services.
-“12 step programs” are Essential Services
and may remain open, but to the extent online options are a suitable
alternative the same are recommended during this time.
-Childcare facilities and providers ( in a
child care facility, in home child care or in the home of the child) that
enable employees exempted in the Amended Shelter in Place Order to work as
permitted (i.e., healthcare workers, linemen, Essential Service provider
employees) are an Essential Service and are allowed.
-Gun and ammunition sales, supplies and
service and archery sales, supplies and service re Essential Services for
purposes of safety and security and in furtherance of food cultivation.
-Custom cabinet shops are Essential Services.
--Residential and commercial real estate
services, including settlement services are Essential Services, but should be
provided through remote telework from home unless the same cannot be provided
through remote telework in which case appropriate social distancing measures
must be followed.
-Residential leasing services are Essential
Services but should be provided through remote telework from home unless the
same cannot be provided through remote telework in which case appropriate
social distancing measures must be followed.
-Transportation by motorcycle is permitted
provided the same is part of an essential activity and/or means of transport
to/from an Essential Service. In the
event that motorcycle transportation is used as a permitted outdoor activity
the same should include no stops, other than at an Essential Service provide,
and appropriate social distancing measure of six feet should be observed at
all times.
-Open
spaces are allowed, and exercise is strongly encouraged to the extent that
social distancing rules are followed at all times. This includes public
and private trails, open spaces, green belts, park spaces (not including
picnic tables and playgrounds) and outdoor golf activities. Allowable
golf activities do not include clubhouses or outdoor dining or bar, except to
the extent that the same is provided as pick-up or take-away in accordance
with the Amended Shelter in Place Order, and any course remaining open under
this guidance must enforce social distancing requirements and remove all
items or enforce rules related to items touched by multiple people (i.e.,
remove or disable ball washers, drinking fountains, rakes, etc., and leave
pins in place or raise cup liners). To maintain distance, no more than three
players per hole should be allowed. To the extent golf cart rental is
available, each cart must be fully sanitized after each use.
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Golf course maintenance and park maintenance is allowed
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Municipal golf course openings are up to individual cities, but must follow
these general rules
-Fishing,
by boat or from shore, including travel to and from the fishing location, is
an essential activity and allowed so long as social distancing requirements
of six feet are maintained.
-Insurance
agencies are an Essential Service.
-Utilizing
post office and shipping services (including travel to and from post office
and shipping carrier locations) is an Essential Service and is allowed.
-Residential
cleaning services or independent contractors are Essential Services. Commercial cleaning services or independent
are Essential Services to the extent that the same is necessary to maintain
the safety, sanitation, and essential operations of businesses performing
Essential Services. Carpet cleaning
services may operate (or not) in the same situations that cleaning services
and independent contractors are allowed to operate.
-Veterinary
care is an Essential Service and is allowed for non-elective services and
procedures (elective procedure are prohibited). Veterinarians are directed to identify
which services and procedures are essential and which are elective.
-Attendance
of a gathering or service in a funeral home, at a crematorium or in a
cemetery is an Essential Service and is allowed provided that social
distancing requirements of 6 feet are maintained between attendees not of the
same household.
-Residents of another county who own property
or a second home in Hunt County and/or residents of Hunt County who own
property or a second home inside or outside of Hunt County may travel for the
purpose of maintenance of that property.
However, travel between properties or between homes is strongly
discouraged.
Updated
at 3:30 pm on April 23, 2020.
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