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NARI Tampa Bay COVID-19 Resources

The purpose of this page is to assemble links and copies of stay at home orders that members can print to keep with them. There are also links to the various financial programs available to contractors and businesses impacted by COVID-19.

Hillsborough County Stay At Home Order Finding Construction to Be an Essential Business

Summary of the Order

The Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners voted to issue a “safer-at-home” order requiring people to remain at home, absent certain exceptions. The order restricts businesses, unless they are engaged in providing Essential Services or conducting Necessary Activities. As an initial matter, the following construction-related professions/businesses are listed as Essential Services:

- Hardware, gardening, and building material stores

- Contractors and other tradesmen, building and apartment management and maintenance (including janitorial companies servicing commercial businesses), home security firms, fire and water damage restoration appliance repair personnel, exterminators, and other service providers (such as landscape and pool maintenance service providers) who provide services that are necessary to maintaining the safety, sanitation, and essential operation of residences and other structures

The City of Tampa’s COVID-19 resources website further explains that the following are Essential Services:

- Hardware and building supply stores and nurseries

- Pool supply stores

- Plumbers, electricians, exterminators, custodial/janitorial workers, handyman services, funeral home workers and morticians, moving services, HVAC installers, carpenters, landscapers, gardeners, pool maintenance, property managers, private security personnel and other service providers who provide services to maintain the safety, sanitation, and essential operation to properties and other essential activities.

- Construction of new, and renovation/repair of existing, public works projects and private commercial, institutional, retail, and residential buildings and housing

- Airport operations, food supply, concessions, and construction

- Port operations and construction

- Water, wastewater, gas, electrical, oil extraction and refining

- Roads, highways, public transportation and rail

- Solid waste collection and removal

- 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, and web-based services)

- Manufacturing and distribution companies deemed essential to the supply chains of the above industries

Resources

Click Here to download a full copy of the Hillsborough County Stay at Home Order

Click Here for Hillsborough County COVID-19 Resources for Businesses

Click Here for Hillsborough County COVID-19 Business Information Page

Click Here for City of Tampa “Stay at Home” Order Explanations

Jason Lambert