AZ Governor's Executive Order and Business Requirements
June 29, 2020
REQUIREMENTS FOR RESTAURANTS AND BARS PROVIDING DINE-IN SERVICES
Pursuant to Executive Order 2020-40 Containing the Spread of COVID-19
Requirements for Preventing COVID-19 Transmission
In addition to the previous guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) and the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), under all circumstances, the
following precautions are now required for restaurants and bars providing dine-in services in
Arizona:
• Enforce physical distancing of at least 6 feet between customers.
• Maintain physical distancing of at least 6 feet in between tables, including limiting parties
to no more than 10.
• Clearly mark tables and chairs that are not in use.
• Maintain clearly marked 6-foot spacing marks and/or signage along entrances, waiting
areas, hallways, patios, and restrooms and any other location within a restaurant where
queues may form or patrons may congregate.
• Bar top or counter seating is not allowed, unless each party is spaced approximately 6 feet
apart.
• Operate with reduced occupancy and capacity based on the size of the business location
with special attention to limiting areas where customers and employees can congregate.
• Continue to provide options for delivery, pick-up, or curbside service even if a location offers
dine-in.
• If the local government has not mandated mask or cloth face covering requirements, cloth
masks and frequent handwashing is required for all servers, host staff and employees that
interact with customers.
• Develop and enforce standards for the use of non-medical grade masks or cloth face
coverings by employees when near other employees and customers.
• Develop and enforce handwashing policy for servers as it exists in the Food Code.
• Post physical and/or electronic signage posting at the restaurant entrance of public health
advisories prohibiting individuals who are symptomatic from entering the premises.
• Support healthy hygiene practices for both employees and customers:
• Enforce hand washing, covering coughs and sneezes.
• Supplies should include soap, hand sanitizer with at least 60 percent alcohol, and tissues.
• Ensure hand sanitizer is available at or adjacent to entrances to the facility, restrooms
and in employee work areas, or soap and running water readily accessible to staff and
customers and marked locations.
• Post signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, properly wash hands, promote
everyday protective measures, and properly wear a face covering.
• Intensify cleaning, disinfection, and ventilation practices.
• Wash, rinse, and sanitize food contact surfaces, food preparation surfaces, and beverage
equipment after use.
• Implement comprehensive sanitation protocols, including increased sanitation schedules
for bathrooms.
• Restaurants should sanitize customer areas after each sitting with EPA-registered disinfectant,
including but not limited to:
• Tables
• Tablecloths
• Chairs/booth seats
• Table-top condiments and condiment holders
• Any other surface or item a customer is likely to have touched
• Implement symptom screening for employees prior to the start of their shift.
• Wellness/symptom checks, including temperature checks for all restaurant personnel, as
they arrive on premises and before the opening of a restaurant.
• Eliminate instances where customers serve their own food, including salad bars and buffets.
• Avoid using or sharing items such as menus, condiments, and any other food.
• Instead, use disposable or digital menus, single serving condiments, and no-touch trash
cans and doors.
• Wipe any pens, touchpads, counters, or hard surfaces between each use by a customer.
• Consider assigning duties to vulnerable workers that minimize their contact with customers
and other employees.
• Train all employees in the above safety actions.
REQUIREMENTS FOR BUSINESSES
Pursuant to Executive Order 2020-40 Containing the Spread of COVID-19
All Businesses
Any business, whether for-profit or non-profit, institution, profession or entity that physically
operates in the State of Arizona and serves the public or is an employer shall develop, establish,
implement and enforce policies that adopt guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), the Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA), and the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) to limit and mitigate the spread
of COVID-19 including the following:
• Promoting healthy hygiene practices;
• Intensifying cleaning, disinfection and ventilation practices;
• Monitoring for sickness;
• Ensuring physical distancing;
• Requiring face coverings when physical distancing is not feasible;
• Providing necessary protective equipment;
• Allowing for and encouraging teleworking where feasible;
• Providing plans, where possible, to return to work in phases; and
• Limiting the congregation of groups of no more than 10 persons when feasible and in relation
to the size of the location.
Requirements for Preventing COVID-19 Transmission
Pursuant to the previous and updated guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) and the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), under all
circumstances, the following precautions are required for businesses operating in Arizona:
• Unless the service provided does not allow for physical distancing, businesses shall
implement and enforce physical distancing requirements of at least 6 feet between
employees and/or customers:
• Maintain physical distancing of at least 6 feet in between tables, chairs, or desks if in an
open space.
• Maintain clearly marked 6-foot spacing marks and/or signage along entrances, waiting
areas, hallways, patios, and restrooms and any other location within a business where
queues may form or patrons may congregate.
• If physical barriers are not possible, consider the use of visual cues, such as tape marks or
decals, placed 6 feet apart to indicate where to stand.
• Operate with reduced occupancy and capacity based on the size of the business location
to accommodate 6 feet physical distancing, with special attention to limiting areas where
customers and employees can congregate.
• Install barriers, rearrange or remove furniture, use signage to promote physical distancing,
or provide remote opportunities such as delivery or pick-up for consumers.
• Close or limit access to congregate settings such as lunch rooms, employee lounges or
break rooms, and other communal gathering spaces as feasible.
• Ensure proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE), such as gloves, face coverings
or respirators, as required.
• Implement policies and encourage teleworking where feasible.
In businesses where services cannot be provided without physical distancing, all possible
efforts shall be made to physically distance to the greatest extent possible and the business
shall implement and enforce a policy for the use of face coverings by employees and
customers when feasible.
• Maintain physical distancing, to the extent possible.
• Provide and require employees to wear masks when possible.
• Operate with reduced occupancy and capacity based on the size of the business location
with special attention to limiting areas where customers and employees can congregate.
• Implement comprehensive sanitation protocols.
• Consider operating by appointment-only to manage occupancy levels.
• Post physical and/or electronic signage at building entrances of public health advisories
prohibiting individuals who are symptomatic from entering the premises.
• Continue to provide options for delivery or curbside service if you provide business to
customers.
• Implement symptom screening for employees prior to the start of their shift.
• Wellness/symptom checks, including temperature checks for all personnel, when
possible, as they arrive on premises or before opening.
• Maintain physical distancing guidelines and use personal protective equipment (PPE)
while conducting health checks.
• Health checks should be done in a private location to avoid stigma and discrimination in
the workplace. Information should be kept confidential.
• Employees who appear to have symptoms or who become ill while at work should
immediately be separated from others and sent home.
• Have a plan in place for safely transporting sick employees to their home or
healthcare provider.
• Require sick employees to stay home and not return until they have met criteria to return to
work.
• Employers should not require a COVID-19 test result in order for employees to return to
work and should consider waiving any requirement for a note from a healthcare provider.
• Sick employees, or those with a family member at home sick with COVID-19, should notify
their supervisors and stay home.
• Employees should wear a cloth face covering when possible.
• CDC recommends use of a cloth face covering to contain respiratory droplets and to
protect coworkers and members of the general public.
• Note that wearing a face covering does not replace the benefits of physical distancing.
• Increase the frequency of employee hygiene, cleaning and disinfection.
• Ensure hand sanitizer is available at or adjacent to entrances to the facility, restrooms and
in employee work areas.
• Where possible, ensure soap and running water are readily accessible to staff and
customers.
• Post signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, properly wash hands, promote
everyday protective measures, and properly wear a face covering.
• Wash hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not
available, use a hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.
• Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
• Cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) and throw the
tissue away. Wash hands or use hand sanitizer immediately after.
• Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces such as keyboards, phones,
handrails, and door knobs.
• Avoid using or sharing items.
• Instead, use disposable items and no-touch trash cans and doors.
• Wipe any pens, touchpads, counters, or hard surfaces between each use by a customer.
**Note that guidance may be updated. Those complying with this guidance are encouraged to regularly visit the
websites provided to ensure they are adhering to the most up-to-date guidance.
Websites for additional public health guidance:
www.cdc.gov
www.azhealth.gov
www.dol.gov
Pursuant to Executive Order 2020-40 Containing the Spread of COVID-19
Requirements for Preventing COVID-19 Transmission
In addition to the previous guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) and the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), under all circumstances, the
following precautions are now required for restaurants and bars providing dine-in services in
Arizona:
• Enforce physical distancing of at least 6 feet between customers.
• Maintain physical distancing of at least 6 feet in between tables, including limiting parties
to no more than 10.
• Clearly mark tables and chairs that are not in use.
• Maintain clearly marked 6-foot spacing marks and/or signage along entrances, waiting
areas, hallways, patios, and restrooms and any other location within a restaurant where
queues may form or patrons may congregate.
• Bar top or counter seating is not allowed, unless each party is spaced approximately 6 feet
apart.
• Operate with reduced occupancy and capacity based on the size of the business location
with special attention to limiting areas where customers and employees can congregate.
• Continue to provide options for delivery, pick-up, or curbside service even if a location offers
dine-in.
• If the local government has not mandated mask or cloth face covering requirements, cloth
masks and frequent handwashing is required for all servers, host staff and employees that
interact with customers.
• Develop and enforce standards for the use of non-medical grade masks or cloth face
coverings by employees when near other employees and customers.
• Develop and enforce handwashing policy for servers as it exists in the Food Code.
• Post physical and/or electronic signage posting at the restaurant entrance of public health
advisories prohibiting individuals who are symptomatic from entering the premises.
• Support healthy hygiene practices for both employees and customers:
• Enforce hand washing, covering coughs and sneezes.
• Supplies should include soap, hand sanitizer with at least 60 percent alcohol, and tissues.
• Ensure hand sanitizer is available at or adjacent to entrances to the facility, restrooms
and in employee work areas, or soap and running water readily accessible to staff and
customers and marked locations.
• Post signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, properly wash hands, promote
everyday protective measures, and properly wear a face covering.
• Intensify cleaning, disinfection, and ventilation practices.
• Wash, rinse, and sanitize food contact surfaces, food preparation surfaces, and beverage
equipment after use.
• Implement comprehensive sanitation protocols, including increased sanitation schedules
for bathrooms.
• Restaurants should sanitize customer areas after each sitting with EPA-registered disinfectant,
including but not limited to:
• Tables
• Tablecloths
• Chairs/booth seats
• Table-top condiments and condiment holders
• Any other surface or item a customer is likely to have touched
• Implement symptom screening for employees prior to the start of their shift.
• Wellness/symptom checks, including temperature checks for all restaurant personnel, as
they arrive on premises and before the opening of a restaurant.
• Eliminate instances where customers serve their own food, including salad bars and buffets.
• Avoid using or sharing items such as menus, condiments, and any other food.
• Instead, use disposable or digital menus, single serving condiments, and no-touch trash
cans and doors.
• Wipe any pens, touchpads, counters, or hard surfaces between each use by a customer.
• Consider assigning duties to vulnerable workers that minimize their contact with customers
and other employees.
• Train all employees in the above safety actions.
REQUIREMENTS FOR BUSINESSES
Pursuant to Executive Order 2020-40 Containing the Spread of COVID-19
All Businesses
Any business, whether for-profit or non-profit, institution, profession or entity that physically
operates in the State of Arizona and serves the public or is an employer shall develop, establish,
implement and enforce policies that adopt guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), the Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA), and the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) to limit and mitigate the spread
of COVID-19 including the following:
• Promoting healthy hygiene practices;
• Intensifying cleaning, disinfection and ventilation practices;
• Monitoring for sickness;
• Ensuring physical distancing;
• Requiring face coverings when physical distancing is not feasible;
• Providing necessary protective equipment;
• Allowing for and encouraging teleworking where feasible;
• Providing plans, where possible, to return to work in phases; and
• Limiting the congregation of groups of no more than 10 persons when feasible and in relation
to the size of the location.
Requirements for Preventing COVID-19 Transmission
Pursuant to the previous and updated guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) and the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), under all
circumstances, the following precautions are required for businesses operating in Arizona:
• Unless the service provided does not allow for physical distancing, businesses shall
implement and enforce physical distancing requirements of at least 6 feet between
employees and/or customers:
• Maintain physical distancing of at least 6 feet in between tables, chairs, or desks if in an
open space.
• Maintain clearly marked 6-foot spacing marks and/or signage along entrances, waiting
areas, hallways, patios, and restrooms and any other location within a business where
queues may form or patrons may congregate.
• If physical barriers are not possible, consider the use of visual cues, such as tape marks or
decals, placed 6 feet apart to indicate where to stand.
• Operate with reduced occupancy and capacity based on the size of the business location
to accommodate 6 feet physical distancing, with special attention to limiting areas where
customers and employees can congregate.
• Install barriers, rearrange or remove furniture, use signage to promote physical distancing,
or provide remote opportunities such as delivery or pick-up for consumers.
• Close or limit access to congregate settings such as lunch rooms, employee lounges or
break rooms, and other communal gathering spaces as feasible.
• Ensure proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE), such as gloves, face coverings
or respirators, as required.
• Implement policies and encourage teleworking where feasible.
In businesses where services cannot be provided without physical distancing, all possible
efforts shall be made to physically distance to the greatest extent possible and the business
shall implement and enforce a policy for the use of face coverings by employees and
customers when feasible.
• Maintain physical distancing, to the extent possible.
• Provide and require employees to wear masks when possible.
• Operate with reduced occupancy and capacity based on the size of the business location
with special attention to limiting areas where customers and employees can congregate.
• Implement comprehensive sanitation protocols.
• Consider operating by appointment-only to manage occupancy levels.
• Post physical and/or electronic signage at building entrances of public health advisories
prohibiting individuals who are symptomatic from entering the premises.
• Continue to provide options for delivery or curbside service if you provide business to
customers.
• Implement symptom screening for employees prior to the start of their shift.
• Wellness/symptom checks, including temperature checks for all personnel, when
possible, as they arrive on premises or before opening.
• Maintain physical distancing guidelines and use personal protective equipment (PPE)
while conducting health checks.
• Health checks should be done in a private location to avoid stigma and discrimination in
the workplace. Information should be kept confidential.
• Employees who appear to have symptoms or who become ill while at work should
immediately be separated from others and sent home.
• Have a plan in place for safely transporting sick employees to their home or
healthcare provider.
• Require sick employees to stay home and not return until they have met criteria to return to
work.
• Employers should not require a COVID-19 test result in order for employees to return to
work and should consider waiving any requirement for a note from a healthcare provider.
• Sick employees, or those with a family member at home sick with COVID-19, should notify
their supervisors and stay home.
• Employees should wear a cloth face covering when possible.
• CDC recommends use of a cloth face covering to contain respiratory droplets and to
protect coworkers and members of the general public.
• Note that wearing a face covering does not replace the benefits of physical distancing.
• Increase the frequency of employee hygiene, cleaning and disinfection.
• Ensure hand sanitizer is available at or adjacent to entrances to the facility, restrooms and
in employee work areas.
• Where possible, ensure soap and running water are readily accessible to staff and
customers.
• Post signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, properly wash hands, promote
everyday protective measures, and properly wear a face covering.
• Wash hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not
available, use a hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol.
• Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
• Cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) and throw the
tissue away. Wash hands or use hand sanitizer immediately after.
• Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces such as keyboards, phones,
handrails, and door knobs.
• Avoid using or sharing items.
• Instead, use disposable items and no-touch trash cans and doors.
• Wipe any pens, touchpads, counters, or hard surfaces between each use by a customer.
**Note that guidance may be updated. Those complying with this guidance are encouraged to regularly visit the
websites provided to ensure they are adhering to the most up-to-date guidance.
Stay Healthy, Return Smarter, Return Stronger
Executive Order 2020-36Websites for additional public health guidance:
www.cdc.gov
www.azhealth.gov
www.dol.gov
