Emergency Measures Effective March 29, 2020EMERGENCY MEASURES
TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY CITY OF MIAMI BEACH
(Revised on March 28, 2020)
EFFECTIVE MARCH 29, 2020, AT 12:00 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 Ap ril 2, 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 (the "Order"):
PARKS, BEACHES, RECREATIONAL, AND CULTURAL FACILITIES
• All parks, beaches, and recreational facilities (whether publicly-owned or privately-
owned) shall be CLOSED.
• All City Parks and Recreation programs, games, practices, field trips, and events shall
be CANCELED.
• The City's beachwalks and baywalks shall remain OPEN. Use of the City's beachwalks
and baywalks shall be limited to pedestrians ONLY prior to 9:00 a.m. and after 5:00
p.m. each day; bicycles, scooters, skateboarding, in-line skating, roller skating,
motorized means of transportation, and any other mobility devices (except for
wheelchairs and other motorized means of transportation used by disabled persons)
shall be PROHIBITED on the City's beachwalks and baywalks prior to 9:00 a.m. and
after 5:00 p.m. each day.
• All public gatherings of ten (1 O) or more persons on the City's beachwalks and
baywalks shall be PROHIBITED.
• Monument Island shall be CLOSED.
• All museums, memorials, and cultural institutions shall be CLOSED.
SIDEWALK CAFES
• All sidewalk cafes shall be CLOSED.
CURFEW
• A general curfew is hereby established throughout the City. The curfew will be in effect
daily from 12.00 a.m. (mi dn igh t ) to 5:00 a.m., and shall include but not be limited to
the prohibition on pedestrian and vehicular movement, standing and parking, except
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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, food delivery services (subject to the additional
provisions below), and travel to and from work by employees of essential retail and
commercial businesses, as defined in Miami-Dade County Emergency Order 07-20,
as may be amended.
EMERGENCY MEASURES FOR RETAIL AND COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS
• Pursuant to Miami-Dade County Emergency Order 07-20, as may be amended, all
non-essential retail and commercial establishments shall be CLOSED. Essential retail
and commercial businesses, as defined in Miami-Dade County Emergency Order 07-
20, may remain open, and subject to any further City restrictions, as set forth in this
Order. Any restaurants, nightclubs, dance halls, halls for hire, or similar businesses
that are located within a hotel shall also be considered a "non-essential retail and
commercial establishment" subject to the restrictions below.
• All gymnasiums and fitness centers shall be CLOSED, EXCEPT for gymnasiums or
fitness centers which are (i) an amenity of a residential building; (ii) interior to any fire
or police station; or (iii) located within any single-occupant office building.
• In addition to the closure of all massage therapy centers and spas required by Miami
Dade County Emergency Order 07-20, massage therapy centers or spas operating
within hotels shall be CLOSED. In addition, no establishment shall provide
massage therapy services, except hospitals or medical service providers.
• All private schools, colleges, and educational institutions shall be CLOSED, except as
necessary to facilitate online or distance learning.
• Commercial lodging establishments
o Commercial lodging establishments including, but not limited to, hotels, suite
hotels, hotel units within apartment-hotels, hostels, dormitories, motels, and
temporary vacation rentals (i.e. short-term rentals) shall be fully closed to transient
guests and renters.
o Commercial lodging establishments shall cancel all existing reservations, and shall
refrain from accepting new transient guests or making new reservations for stays
for the booking period commencing at 12:00 a.m. on March 24, 2020 through 11 :59
p.m. on April 22, 2020.
o Restaurants located within commercial lodging establishments may continue to
operate their kitchens for take-out, pick up, or delivery services only, subject to the
provisions below.
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o Commercial lodging establishments may be permitted to maintain security and
other essential personnel on-premises, as necessary, to maintain and secure their
facilities.
o This Order shall not apply to (i) residents of residential apartment buildings and/or
residential condominiums which may include hotel units; or (ii) a commercial
lodging establishment that has received approval from a City, County, State, or
Federal governmental entity for the limited purpose of providing emergency
healthcare services or other essential services, including, without limitation, to
serve as shelters, or to house patients (for any health-care related purposes, such
as pre-admission, observation, recovery, or rehabilitation), patients' families,
healthcare workers, first responders, law enforcement or other essential personnel,
or displaced residents or visitors.
• Restaurants and Other Facilities That Prepare and Serve Food
All restaurants and other facilities that prepare and serve food (including bars,
nightclubs, dance halls, halls for hire, banquet halls, ballrooms, or similar
establishments operating within hotels) and similar businesses shall be required to
CLOSE for on-premises service of customers until further notice. However, such
establishments may operate their kitchens for the purpose of providing delivery
services, drive-through, pick-up or take-out services only, from 5:00 a.m. until
midnight each day; and, between the hours of midnight and 5:00 a.m., such
establishments may operate their kitchens for the purpose of providing delivery
services only. Any establishment that remains open for delivery, pick-up, or take-out
services shall be required to assign as many staff members as necessary to maintain
a distance of at least six (6) feet between each individual patron, in order to enforce
social distancing, both inside and outside of the establishment.
• Religious institutions and places of worship
Consistent with the general restrictions on public and private gatherings set forth in the
City's "Safer at Home" Emergency Order, dated March 23, 2020, public and private
gatherings of any number of people shall be PROHIBITED in religious institutions and
places of worship.
THE EMERGENCY MEASURES THAT HAVE BEEN ORDERED AND PROMULGATED
ABOVE SHALL BE EFFECTIVE COMMENCING AT 12:00 A.M. ON MARCH 29, 2020, AND
SHALL BE EFFECTIVE THROUGH 11:59 P.M. ON APRIL 2, 2020, UNLESS EXTENDED
BY THE MIAMI BEACH CITY COMMISSION BY DUL Y ENACTED RESOLUTION IN
REGULAR OR SPECIAL SESSION, OR BY THE CITY MANAGER PURSUANT TO CITY
RESOLUTION NO. 2020-31219.
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.
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The Emergency Measures set forth herein supersede and replace all prior City of Miami
Beach Emergency Measures ordered and promulgated since March 12, 2020.
ATTEST:
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STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF MIAMI-DADE
I, RAFAEL E. GRANADO, City Clerk of the City of
Miami Beach , Florida, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of
the original thereof on file in this office.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this
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Rafael E. Grana do
City Clerk of the City of Miami Beach, Florida