Can Your Business Remain Open During Shelter Order?

By Atascadero News · Thu Mar 19 2020

Here's the current list from SLO County

Businesses serving the following industries are exempt from the shelter-at-home order fro SLO County. This list will be updated as changes are made.

• Agriculture, livestock supply
• Airlines
• Alarm and security companies
• Animal boarding, pet supply
• Auto repair and service
• Banks and other financial services
• Blood donation centers
• Businesses that supply essential businesses with necessary supplies or items required to work from home.
• Cemeteries, funeral parlor and internment services
• Childcare facilities (with limitations)
• Community gardens
• Construction, architecture, engineering services (all active construction in progress and all work related to emergency housing, care facilities, and essential infrastructure may continue)
• Convenience stores
• Distribution and delivery of essential consumer or business goods
• Domestic violence shelters
• Drug stores
• Dry cleaners and laundromats
• Electricians
• Essential government services
• Exterminators
• Farmer’s markets, produce stands
• Farming (all agriculture) and related support industries
• Food cultivation and related support services
• Food and goods delivery services
• Food banks and other organizations that provide assistance to the disadvantaged
• Food preparation facilities
• Gas stations Grocery stores Hardware stores Home-based care
• Home repair and maintenance (landscaping, pool service, repairs)
• Homeless service providers, shelters
• Hospitals, clinics, and medical offices
• Hotels and motels, bed and breakfasts, VRBO
• Mailing and shipping services
• Manufacturing of essential consumer and business goods
• Media, internet technology support
• Online wholesale or retail sales
• Pharmacies
• Plumbers, HVAC services
• Professional services (legal, insurance, title, accounting, mortgage brokers, payroll, and others as needed to assist with legally mandated or essential services)
• Property management
• Public transit, busses, rideshare, taxis, Uber, Lyft
• Railroads
• Recyclers, including electronics recyclers
• Re-entry or rehabilitation facilities
• Residential facilities
• Restaurants* (*See Limited Services List)
• Schools - public and private (distance learning, administration, and food only)
• Solid waste haulers
• Storage facilities
• Trucking and moving services
• Utility providers - water, power, gas, cable, internet, cell service
• Veterinarians

For more information, go to https://www.emergencyslo.org/en/shelter-at-home-order.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1e3RHFyu1WmBsm8aSnC-xGvRyz6KZ2RGkE0UZS6SI5Ql9E60-L3gN_dd4