Emergency Measures Effective March 17, 2020EMERGENCY MEASURES
TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY CITY OF MIAMI BEACH
(Revised on March 16, 2020, at 3:30 P.M.)
EFFECTIVE MARCH 17, 2020, AT 12:01 A.M.
As City Manager for the City of Miami Beach, Florida, and pursuant to the authority vested in
me under Section 26-31 of the City of Miami Beach Code of Laws and Ordinances (the "City
Code"), as well as that certain City of Miami Beach Declaration of State of Emergency, dated
March 12, 2020, and effective through March 19, 2020, I hereby ORDER and PROMULGATE
the following additional emergency measures, which will be reasonably and necessarily
implemented in response to this State of Emergency:
PARKS AND BEACHES
• All public beaches from 5th Street through and including 15th Street will be CLOSED.
• Lummus Park will be CLOSED.
• All City recreation centers will be CLOSED.
• All City Parks and Recreation Department programs, games, practices, field trips, and
events will be CANCELED.
SIDEWALK CAFES
• All sidewalk cates will be required to either reduce their capacity by 50%, or to a
maximum of 50 persons, whichever is less.
PARKING
• All City-owned parking garages and City-owned surface parking lots shall be CLOSED
to the general public (except for permit and access card holders).
CURFEW
• A curfew is hereby established within the boundaries of the MXE district (bounded by
5th Street on the South, 16th Street on the North, Washington Avenue on the West,
and Ocean Drive on the East). The curfew will be in effect daily from 11:00 p.m. to
5:00 a.m., and shall include but not be limited to the prohibition on pedestrian and
vehicular movement, standing and parking, except for the provision of designated
essential services such as fire, police and hospital services, including the
transportation of patients thereto, utility emergency repairs, emergency calls by
physicians, and food delivery services (subject to the limitations below).
EMERGENCY MEASURES FOR NON-ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES
• Non-essential .businesses shall be subject to the hours of operation and occupancy
restrictions below. The term "non-essential businesses" shall include all businesses
operating within the territorial limits of the City of Miami Beach, EXCEPT the following:
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pharmacies, grocery stores, convenience stores, private offices, banks, hotel
operations, hospitals, medical service providers, medical supply stores, hardware
stores, gasoline service stations, and automotive supply/repair centers.
• Any restaurants, nightclubs, dance halls, halls for hire, or similar businesses that are
located within a hotel shall also be considered a "non-essential business" subject to
the restrictions below.
• Hours of operation
All non-essential businesses shall be required to CLOSE by no later than 10:00
p.m. each day (including weeknights and weekends), and shall not reopen until
5:00 a.m. the next morning; EXCEPT restaurant kitchens may continue to operate
after 10:00 p.m. until 12:00 midnight each day, for food delivery services only
(i.e. no "dine-in" services).
• Maximum Occupancy
All eating and/or drinking establishments, restaurants, nightclubs, dance halls, halls
for hire, motion picture theaters, or similar businesses shall be required to reduce
their occupancy load by 50%, or to a maximum occupancy of 250 persons,
whichever is less.
Although the City is not requiring that occupancy loads be reduced further at
this time, the CDC recommends that businesses limit gatherings to not more
than 50 persons, for the next 8 weeks.
THE EMERGENCY MEASURES THAT HAVE BEEN ORDERED AND PROMULGATED
ABOVE SHALL BE EFFECTIVE COMMENCING AT 12:01 A.M. ON MARCH 17, 2020, AND
SHALL BE EFFECTIVE THROUGH 11:59 P.M. ON MARCH 19, 2020, UNLESS EXTENDED
BY THE MIAMI BEACH CITY COMMISSION BY DUL Y ENACTED RESOLUTION IN
REGULAR OR SPECIAL SESSION.
Any violation of these emergency measure(s) shall subject the individual, operator, business
entity, or organization to arrest and criminal prosecution pursuant to Section 26-36 and
Section 1-14 of the City Code.
CITY CH, FLORIDA
Jimm L. Morales, City Manager
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