The additional businesses, venues, facilities, services and activities that must close by Monday, April 6 at 5 p.m., according to Gov. Henry McMaster’s executive order announced Friday expanding the list of nonessential businesses affected by COVID-19, are:
These businesses can continue to fulfill online or telephone orders or provide alternative means of purchasing or delivering products and services, including curbside purchase, pickup or delivery and home or off-site delivery. Alternative purchasing must adhere to social distancing guidelines.
The order states firearm and ammunition sales are still allowed.
Businesses and people who want clarification on whether a business is considered nonessential can ask the state Department of Commerce by emailing covid19sc@sccommerce.com, calling (803) 734-2873 or downloading a form and submitting it at www.sccommerce.com.
According to the order, requests should be answered within 24 hours.
The second mandate McMaster issued Friday immediately stopped short-term rentals from accepting new reservations or bookings from people living in or travelling from any place in a CDC travel advisory or other CDC notice.
Those lodging establishments include hotels, motels, villas, condominiums, inns, tourist courts, tourist camps, campgrounds, bed and breakfasts, residences or any place that offers sleeping accommodations.
It also includes vacation rentals and short-term rental properties that allow people to stay for less than 90 days.
It allows rentals to be booked for people operating commercial vehicles transporting essential goods and products, such as food, water, medicine, medical supplies and equipment, fuels and petroleum products, livestock, poultry, feed for livestock and poultry, and crops and other agricultural products ready to be harvested; people employed by airlines; and people “otherwise engaged in commercial transportation activities.”
It also exempts people performing or assisting with military, health care, pubic safety or emergency response operations.
Like previous orders mandating closures and restrictions, those found in violation of either of these new orders are subject to a misdemeanor punishable by up to $100 or up to 30 days imprisonment.
The initial order closing nonessential businesses, effective, Wednesday, April 1, included:
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