Acting under the Michigan Constitution of 1963 and Michigan law, I order the following:

 

1. This order must be construed broadly to prohibit in-person work that is not necessary to sustain or protect life.

 

2. For purposes of this order, Michigan comprises eight separate regions:

 

1. Region 1 includes the following counties: Monroe, Washtenaw, Livingston, Genesee, Lapeer, Saint Clair, Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne.

 

2. Region 2 includes the following counties: Mason, Lake, Osceola, Clare, Oceana, Newaygo, Mecosta, Isabella, Muskegon, Montcalm, Ottawa, Kent, and Ionia.

 

3. Region 3 includes the following counties: Allegan, Barry, Van Buren, Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, and Branch.

 

4. Region 4 includes the following counties: Oscoda, Alcona, Ogemaw, Iosco, Gladwin, Arenac, Midland, Bay, Saginaw, Tuscola, Sanilac, and Huron.

 

5. Region 5 includes the following counties: Gratiot, Clinton, Shiawassee, Eaton, and Ingham.

 

6. Region 6 includes the following counties: Manistee, Wexford, Missaukee, Roscommon, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Crawford, Leelanau, Antrim, Otsego, Montmorency, Alpena, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Presque Isle, and Emmet.

 

7. Region 7 includes the following counties: Hillsdale, Lenawee, and Jackson.

 

8. Region 8 includes the following counties: Gogebic, Ontonagon, Houghton, Keweenaw, Iron, Baraga, Dickinson, Marquette, Menominee, Delta, Alger, Schoolcraft, Luce, Mackinac, and Chippewa.

 

3. Subject to the exceptions in section 8 of this order, all individuals currently living within the State of Michigan are ordered to stay at home or at their place of residence. Subject to the same exceptions, all public and private gatherings of any number of people occurring among persons not part of a single household are prohibited.

 

4. All individuals who leave their home or place of residence must adhere to social distancing measures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”), including remaining at least six feet from people from outside the individual’s household to the extent feasible under the circumstances.

 

5. No person or entity shall operate a business or conduct operations that require workers to leave their homes or places of residence except to the extent that those workers are necessary to sustain or protect life, to conduct minimum basic operations, or to perform a resumed activity within the meaning of this order.

 

1. For purposes of this order, workers who are necessary to sustain or protect life are defined as “critical infrastructure workers,” as described in sections 9 and 10 of this order.

 

2. For purposes of this order, workers who are necessary to conduct minimum basic operations are those whose in-person presence is strictly necessary to allow the business or operation to maintain the value of inventory and equipment, care for animals, ensure security, process transactions (including payroll and employee benefits), or facilitate the ability of other workers to work remotely.

 

Businesses and operations must determine which of their workers are necessary to conduct minimum basic operations and inform such workers of that designation. Businesses and operations must make such designations in writing, whether by electronic message, public website, or other appropriate means. Workers need not carry copies of their designations when they leave the home or place of residence for work.

 

Any in-person work necessary to conduct minimum basic operations must be performed consistently with the social distancing practices and other mitigation measures described in Executive Order 2020-91 and any orders that follow or replace it.

 

3. Workers who perform resumed activities are defined in section 11 of this order.

 

6. Businesses and operations that employ critical infrastructure workers or workers who perform resumed activities may continue in-person operations, subject to the following conditions:

 

1. Consistent with sections 9, 10, and 11 of this order, businesses and operations must determine which of their workers are critical infrastructure workers or workers who perform resumed activities and inform such workers of that designation. Businesses and operations must make such designations in writing, whether by electronic message, public website, or other appropriate means. Workers need not carry copies of their designations when they leave the home or place of residence for work. Businesses and operations need not designate:

 

1. Workers in health care and public health.

 

2. Workers who perform necessary government activities, as described in section 7 of this order.

 

3. Workers and volunteers described in section 10(d) of this order.

 

2. In-person activities that are not necessary to sustain or protect life or to perform a resumed activity must be suspended.

 

3. Businesses and operations maintaining in-person activities must adopt social distancing practices and other mitigation measures to protect workers and patrons, as described in Executive Order 2020-91 and any orders that follow or replace it.

 

4. Any business or operation that employs workers who perform resumed activities under section 11(a) of this order, but that does not sell necessary supplies, may sell any goods through remote sales via delivery or at the curbside. Such a business or operation, however, must otherwise remain closed to the public.

 

7. All in-person government activities at whatever level (state, county, or local) are suspended unless:

 

1. They are performed by critical infrastructure workers, including workers in law enforcement, public safety, and first responders, as defined in sections 9 and 10 of this order.

 

2. They are performed by workers who are permitted to resume work under section 11 of this order.

 

3. They are necessary to support the activities of workers described in sections 9, 10, and 11 of this order, or to enable transactions that support businesses or operations that employ such workers.

 

4. They involve public transit, trash pick-up and disposal (including recycling and composting), the management and oversight of elections, and the maintenance of safe and sanitary public parks so as to allow for outdoor activity permitted under this order.

 

5. For purposes of this order, necessary government activities include minimum basic operations, as described in 5(b) of this order. Workers performing such activities need not be designated.

 

6. Any in-person government activities must be performed consistently with the social distancing practices and other mitigation measures to protect workers and patrons described in Executive Order 2020-91 and any orders that follow or replace it.

 

8. Exceptions.
   1. Individuals may leave their home or place of residence, and travel as necessary:
      1. To engage in outdoor recreational activity, consistent with remaining at least six feet from people from outside the individual’s household. Outdoor recreational activity includes walking, hiking, running, cycling, boating, golfing, or other similar activity, as well as any comparable activity for those with limited mobility.

 

2. To perform their jobs as critical infrastructure workers after being so designated by their employers. (Critical infrastructure workers who need not be designated under section 6(a) of this order may leave their home for work without being designated.)

 

3. To conduct minimum basic operations, as described in section 5(b) of this order, after being designated to perform such work by their employers.

 

4. To perform resumed activities, as described in section 11 of this order, after being designated to perform such work by their employers.

 

5. To perform necessary government activities, as described in section 7 of this order.

 

6. To perform tasks that are necessary to their health and safety, or to the health and safety of their family or household members (including pets). Individuals may, for example, leave the home or place of residence to secure medication or to seek medical or dental care that is necessary to address a medical emergency or to preserve the health and safety of a household or family member (including in-person procedures or veterinary services that, in accordance with a duly implemented non-essential procedure or veterinary services postponement plan, have not been postponed).

 

7. To obtain necessary services or supplies for themselves, their family or household members, their pets, and their motor vehicles.

 

1. Individuals must secure such services or supplies via delivery to the maximum extent possible. As needed, however, individuals may leave the home or place of residence to purchase groceries, take-out food, gasoline, needed medical supplies, and any other products necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation, and basic operation of their residences or motor vehicles.

 

2. Individuals may also leave the home to pick up or return a motor vehicle as permitted under section 10(i) of this order, or to have a motor vehicle or bicycle repaired or maintained.

 

3. Individuals should limit, to the maximum extent that is safe and feasible, the number of household members who leave the home for any errands.

 

8. To pick up non-necessary supplies at the curbside from a store that must otherwise remain closed to the public.

 

9. To care for a family member or a family member’s pet in another household.

 

10. To care for minors, dependents, the elderly, persons with disabilities, or other vulnerable persons.

 

11. To visit an individual under the care of a health care facility, residential care facility, or congregate care facility, to the extent otherwise permitted.

 

12. To visit a child in out-of-home care, or to facilitate a visit between a parent and a child in out-of-home care, when there is agreement between the child placing agency, the parent, and the caregiver about a safe visitation plan, or when, failing such agreement, the individual secures an exception from the executive director of the Children’s Services Agency.

 

13. To attend legal proceedings or hearings for essential or emergency purposes as ordered by a court.

 

14. To work or volunteer for businesses or operations (including both religious and secular nonprofit organizations) that provide food, shelter, and other necessities of life for economically disadvantaged or otherwise needy individuals, individuals who need assistance as a result of this emergency, and people with disabilities.

 

15. To attend a funeral, provided that no more than 10 people are in attendance.

 

16. To attend a meeting of an addiction recovery mutual aid society, provided that no more than 10 people are in attendance.

 

17. To view a real-estate listing by appointment, as permitted under section 11(g) of this order.

 

18. To participate in training, credentialing, or licensing activities permitted under section 11(i) of this order.

 

19. For individuals in Regions 6 or 8, to go to a restaurant or a retail store or to attend a social gathering of up to 10 people.

 

2. Individuals may also travel:
   1. To return to a home or place of residence from outside this state.
   2. To leave this state for a home or residence elsewhere.

 

3. Between two residences in this state, including moving to a new residence.

 

4. As required by law enforcement or a court order, including the transportation of children pursuant to a custody agreement.

 

3. All other travel is prohibited, including all travel to vacation rentals.

9. For purposes of this order, critical infrastructure workers are those workers described by the Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in his guidance of March 19, 2020 on the COVID-19 response (available here). This order does not adopt any subsequent guidance document released by this same agency.

 

Consistent with the March 19, 2020 guidance document, critical infrastructure workers include some workers in each of the following sectors:

 

1. Health care and public health.

 

2. Law enforcement, public safety, and first responders.

 

3. Food and agriculture.

 

4. Energy.

 

5. Water and wastewater.

 

6. Transportation and logistics.

 

7. Public works.

 

8. Communications and information technology, including news media.

 

1. Other community-based government operations and essential functions.

 

10. Critical manufacturing.

 

11. Hazardous materials.

 

• Financial services.

 

13. Chemical supply chains and safety.

 

• Defense industrial base.

 

10. For purposes of this order, critical infrastructure workers also include:

 

1. Child care workers (including workers at disaster relief child care centers), but only to the extent necessary to serve the children or dependents of critical infrastructure workers, workers who conduct minimum basic operations, workers who perform necessary government activities, or workers who perform resumed activities. This category includes individuals (whether licensed or not) who have arranged to care for the children or dependents of such workers.

 

2. Workers at suppliers, distribution centers, or service providers, as described below.

 

1. Any suppliers, distribution centers, or service providers whose continued operation is necessary to enable, support, or facilitate another business’s or operation’s critical infrastructure work may designate their workers as critical infrastructure workers, provided that only those workers whose in-person presence is necessary to enable, support, or facilitate such work may be so designated.

 

2. Any suppliers, distribution centers, or service providers whose continued operation is necessary to enable, support, or facilitate the necessary work of suppliers, distribution centers, or service providers described in sub-provision (1) of this subsection may designate their workers as critical infrastructure workers provided that only those workers whose in-person presence is necessary to enable, support, or facilitate such work may be so designated.

 

3. Consistent with the scope of work permitted under sub-provision (2) of this subsection, any suppliers, distribution centers, or service providers further down the supply chain whose continued operation is necessary to enable, support, or facilitate the necessary work of other suppliers, distribution centers, or service providers may likewise designate their workers as critical infrastructure workers, provided that only those workers whose in-person presence is necessary to enable, support, or facilitate such work may be so designated.

 

4. Suppliers, distribution centers, and service providers that abuse their designation authority under this subsection shall be subject to sanctions to the fullest extent of the law.

 

3. Workers in the insurance industry, but only to the extent that their work cannot be done by telephone or remotely.

 

4. Workers and volunteers for businesses or operations (including both religious and secular nonprofit organizations) that provide food, shelter, and other necessities of life for economically disadvantaged or otherwise needy individuals, individuals who need assistance as a result of this emergency, and people with disabilities.

 

5. Workers who perform critical labor union functions, including those who administer health and welfare funds and those who monitor the well-being and safety of union members who are critical infrastructure workers, provided that any administration or monitoring should be done by telephone or remotely where possible.

 

6. Workers at retail stores who sell groceries, medical supplies, and products necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation, and basic operation of residences or motor vehicles, including convenience stores, pet supply stores, auto supplies and repair stores, hardware and home maintenance stores, and home appliance retailers.

 

7. Workers at laundromats, coin laundries, and dry cleaners.

 

8. Workers at hotels and motels, provided that the hotels or motels do not offer additional in-house amenities such as gyms, pools, spas, dining, entertainment facilities, meeting rooms, or like facilities.

 

1. Workers at motor vehicle dealerships who are necessary to facilitate remote and electronic sales or leases, or to deliver motor vehicles to customers, provided that showrooms remain closed to in-person traffic.

 

11. For purposes of this order, workers who perform resumed activities are defined as follows:

 

1. Workers who process or fulfill remote orders for goods for delivery or curbside pick-up.

 

2. Workers who perform bicycle maintenance or repair.

 

3. Workers for garden stores, nurseries, and lawn care, pest control, and landscaping operations.

 

4. Workers for moving or storage operations.

 

5. Workers who perform work that is traditionally and primarily performed outdoors, including but not limited to forestry workers, outdoor power equipment technicians, parking enforcement workers, and outdoor workers at places of outdoor recreation not otherwise closed under Executive Order 2020-69 or any order that may follow from it.

 

6. Workers in the construction industry, including workers in the building trades (plumbers, electricians, HVAC technicians, and similar workers).

 

7. Workers in the real-estate industry, including agents, appraisers, brokers, inspectors, surveyors, and registers of deeds, provided that:

 

1. Any showings, inspections, appraisals, photography or videography, or final walk-throughs must be performed by appointment and must be limited to no more than four people on the premises at any one time. No in-person open houses are permitted.

 

2. Private showings may only be arranged for owner-occupied homes, vacant homes, vacant land, commercial property, and industrial property.

 

8. Workers necessary to the manufacture of goods that support workplace modification to forestall the spread of COVID-19 infections.

 

1. Workers necessary to train, credential, and license first responders (e.g., police officers, fire fighters, paramedics) and health-care workers, including certified nursing assistants, provided that as much instruction as possible is provided remotely.

 

10. Workers necessary to perform manufacturing activities. Manufacturing work may not commence under this subsection until the facility at which the work will be performed has been prepared to follow the workplace safeguards described in section 4 of Executive Order 2020-91 and any orders that follow or replace it.

 

11. Workers necessary to conduct research activities in a laboratory setting.

 

• For Regions 6 and 8, beginning at 12:01 am on May 22, workers necessary to perform retail activities. For purposes of this order, retail activities are defined to exclude those places of public accommodation that are closed under Executive Order 2020-69 and any orders that follow or replace it.

 

13. For Regions 6 and 8, beginning at 12:01 am on May 22, workers who work in an office setting, but only to the extent that such work is not capable of being performed remotely.

 

• For Regions 6 and 8, beginning at 12:01 am on May 22, workers in restaurants or bars, subject to the capacity constraints and workplace standards described in Executive Order 2020-91. Nothing in this subsection should be taken to abridge or otherwise modify the existing power of a local government to impose further restrictions on restaurants or bars.

 

• Workers necessary to prepare a workplace to follow the workplace standards described in Executive Order 2020-91.

 

16. Consistent with section 10(b) of this order, workers at suppliers, distribution centers, or service providers whose in-person presence is necessary to enable, support, or facilitate another business’s or operation’s resumed activities, including workers at suppliers, distribution centers, or service providers along the supply chain whose in-person presence is necessary to enable, support, or facilitate the necessary work of another supplier, distribution center, or service provider in enabling, supporting, or facilitating another business’s or operation’s resumed activities. Suppliers, distribution centers, and service providers that abuse their designation authority under this subsection shall be subject to sanctions to the fullest extent of the law.

 

12. Any store that is open for in-store sales under section 10(f) or section 11(c) of this executive order:

 

1. May continue to sell goods other than necessary supplies if the sale of such goods is in the ordinary course of business.

 

2. Must consider establishing curbside pick-up to reduce in-store traffic and mitigate outdoor lines.

 

13. No one shall rent a short-term vacation property except as necessary to assist in housing a health care professional aiding in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic or a volunteer who is aiding the same.

 

14. Michigan state parks remain open for day use, subject to any reductions in services and specific closures that, in the judgment of the director of the Department of Natural Resources, are necessary to minimize large gatherings and to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

 

15. Rules governing face coverings.

 

1. Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, any individual able to medically tolerate a face covering must wear a covering over his or her nose and mouth—such as a homemade mask, scarf, bandana, or handkerchief—when in any enclosed public space.

 

2. An individual may be required to temporarily remove a face covering upon entering an enclosed public space for identification purposes or while seated at a restaurant or bar.

 

3. All businesses and operations whose workers perform in-person work must, at a minimum, provide non-medical grade face coverings to their workers.

 

4. Supplies of N95 masks and surgical masks should generally be reserved, for now, for health care professionals, first responders (e.g., police officers, fire fighters, paramedics), and other critical workers who interact with the public.
5. The protections against discrimination in the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, 1976 PA 453, as amended, MCL 37.2101 et seq., and any other protections against discrimination in Michigan law, apply in full force to individuals who wear a face covering under this order.

 

16. Nothing in this order should be taken to supersede another executive order or directive that is in effect, except to the extent this order imposes more stringent limitations on in-person work, activities, and interactions. Consistent with prior guidance, neither a place of religious worship nor its owner is subject to penalty under section 20 of this order for allowing religious worship at such place. No individual is subject to penalty under section 20 of this order for engaging in or traveling to engage in religious worship at a place of religious worship, or for violating section 15(a) of this order.

 

17. Nothing in this order should be taken to interfere with or infringe on the powers of the legislative and judicial branches to perform their constitutional duties or exercise their authority. Similarly, nothing in this order shall be taken to abridge protections guaranteed by the state or federal constitution under these emergency circumstances.

 

18. This order takes effect immediately, unless otherwise specified in this order, and continues through May 28, 2020 at 11:59 pm. Executive Orders 2020-77 and 2020-90 are rescinded. All references to those orders in other executive orders, agency rules, letters of understanding, or other legal authorities shall be taken to refer to this order.

 

19. I will evaluate the continuing need for this order prior to its expiration. In determining whether to maintain, intensify, or relax its restrictions, I will consider, among other things, (1) data on COVID-19 infections and the disease’s rate of spread; (2) whether sufficient medical personnel, hospital beds, and ventilators exist to meet anticipated medical need; (3) the availability of personal protective equipment for the health care workforce; (4) the state’s capacity to test for COVID-19 cases and isolate infected people; and (5) economic conditions in the state.

 

20. Consistent with MCL 10.33 and MCL 30.405(3), a willful violation of this order is a misdemeanor.

 

Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of Michigan.