Non-Essential Businesses (Including Retail Stores) Ordered Closed

Alabama's governor today updated her health order, in response to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Part of the order closes non-essential businesses, venues, and activities (see list below) at least through April 17th.

It also limits any non-work gathering of 10 persons or more.

2. Effective March 28, 2020 at 5:00 P.M., the following “non-essential” businesses, venues, and activities shall be closed to non-employees or not take place:

a. Entertainment venues as follows:

(1) Night clubs

(2) Bowling alleys

(3) Arcades

(4) Concert venues

(5) Theaters, auditoriums, and performing arts centers

(6) Tourist attractions (including museums and planetariums)

(7) Racetracks

(8) Indoor children’s play areas

(9) Adult entertainment venues

(10) Casinos

(11) Bingo halls

(12) Venues operated by social clubs

b. Athletic facilities and activities as follows:

(1) Fitness centers and commercial gyms

(2) Spas and public or commercial swimming pools

(3) Yoga, barre, and spin facilities

(4) Spectator sports

(5) Sports that involve interaction with another person of closer than 6 feet

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

(7) Activities on commercial or public playground equipment

c. Close-contact service providers as follows:

(1) Barber shops

(2) Hair salons

(3) Waxing salons

(4) Threading salons

(5) Nail salons and spas

(6) Body-art facilities and tattoo services

(7) Tanning salons

(8) Massage-therapy establishments and massage services

d. Retail stores as follows:

(1) Furniture and home-furnishings stores

(2) Clothing, shoe, and clothing-accessory stores

(3) Jewelry, luggage, and leather goods stores

(4) Department stores

(5) Sporting goods stores

(6) Book, craft, and music stores


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