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Late Wednesday evening, City of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a broad and expansive Stay-at-Home Order impacting most residential and commercial activities, effective immediately. Acknowledging a “devastating tipping point,” the 12-page order directs Los Angeles residents to remain in their homes, with limited exceptions.

The most sweeping commercial order, subject to very narrow exceptions, requires that all businesses within the City cease operations that require in-person attendance by workers at a workplace.

Paragraph V, and of the order includes several exceptions. Specifically, Sections A (24) applying to manufacture of retail goods, and Section G (below) applying to Essential Infrastructure include general exceptions for manufacturing.

Essential Infrastructure. Individuals may leave their residences to provide any services or goods or perform any work necessary to build, operate, maintain or manufacture essential infrastructure, including without limitation construction of public health operations, commercial, office and institutional buildings, residential buildings and housing; airport operations, food supply, concessions, and construction; port operations and construction; water, sewer, gas, electrical, oil extraction and refining; roads and highways, public transportation and rail; solid waste collection, removal, and recycling; flood control and watershed protection; internet and telecommunications systems (including the provision of essential global, national, and local infrastructure for computing services, business infrastructure, communications, phone retail sales and servicing, and web-based services); and manufacturing and distribution companies deemed essential to the supply chains of the industries referenced in this Paragraph, provided that they carry out those services and that work in compliance with social distancing practices as prescribed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, to the extent possible.

CAA will continue to be in contact with the state legislative delegation within the City of Los Angeles jurisdiction to ensure, to the extent feasible, that food supply operations are allowed to continue.