These are the jobs and sectors exempted from California’s coronavirus stay-home order

Gov. Gavin Newsom said his executive order includes an extensive list of businesses, jobs and operations that are exempted from a new statewide requirement directing all Californians to stay at home amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The mandatory order allows Californians to continue to visit gas stations, pharmacies, grocery stores, farmers markets, food banks, convenience stores, takeout and delivery restaurants, banks and laundromats. People can leave their homes to care for a relative or a friend or seek healthcare services.

“We’re going to keep the grocery stores open,� Newsom said. “We’re going to make sure that you’re getting critical medical supplies. You can still take your kids outside, practicing common sense and social distancing. You can still walk your dog.�

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Workers at the Ralphs grocery store in Westchester measure out social distancing guidelines for its customers with markers every six feet and limiting the number of customers it allows in to shop.  (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)

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At Echo Park Lake, friends gather with their dogs and enjoy a Sunday afternoon in the park. Social distancing and home isolation remain in effect due to the coronavirus.   (Carolyn Cole/Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

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During the coronavirus pandemic, people continue to walk and ride their bikes along the path at Junipero Beach in Long Beach.  (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)

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People run and walk on the Veterans Parkway in Manhattan Beach even with signage saying the space is closed to help minimize the spread of the coronavirus.  (Dania Maxwell/Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times)

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Jesus Mendoza sells roses on the sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles. Mendoza said his business was overwhelmed by hundred of boxes of roses they could not sell.  (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)

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Riverside County medical personnel administer a coronavirus test to a driver at a drive-though testing facility at Diamond Stadium in Lake Elsinore.  (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)

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Drivers line-up to get a coronavirus test administered by Riverside County medical personnel at a drive-though testing facility at Diamond Stadium in Lake Elsinore. Those tested have symptoms or have had a risk of exposure.  (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)

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Xiao Ping, holding a tray of eggs, looks back at the long line of egg buyers on Saturda morning in Chino. Spooked by coronavirus people from nearby Inland Empire cities started lining up early morning at Maust’s California Poultry in Chino.   (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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Spooked by coronavirus fears, people from nearby Inland Empire cities lined-up to buy eggs at Maust’s California Poultry in Chino.   (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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The sparsely trafficked intersection of the 101 and 110 freeways in downtown Los Angeles is seen in a drone image.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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School buses sit idle since all schools have been closed in Los Angeles County. The image was taken by drone.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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In this drone image, the Westfield Topanga mall parking lot sits empty, as new regulations have closed all indoor shopping centers in Canoga Park.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Vehicles flow smoothly along Interstate 5 and the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles in this drone image.  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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The city of Santa Monica has closed the Santa Monica Pier, and few people were on the beach Friday.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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Shops are shuttered on historic Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles.   (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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The intersection of the 101 and 110 freeways in downtown Los Angeles.   (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

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Hollywood Blvd. is devoid of the usual crowds as most shops are closed.  (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

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Hollywood Blvd. is devoid of the usual crowds as most shops are closed.  (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

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On the first day of L.A.’s ‘Safer at Home,â€� most major avenues and streets in downtown Los Angeles have very little traffic.   (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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Empty streets in downtown Los Angeles.   (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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The main entrance to Union Station is closed.  (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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Union Station was restricted to only ticketed passenger and main entrance closed.  (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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Commuter protect themselves with a face mask while riding a bus at El Monte Metro Station.   (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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Salvation Army volunteer Christina Cuevas sets up cots for homeless at Westwood Recreation Center in Westwood.  (Brian van der Brug/Brian van der Brug/Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

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Popular shopping destination Rodeo Drive is all but deserted as retail shops are shuttered in Beverly Hills.  (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times)

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The Apple store is among all the stores which have closed during the coronavirus outbreak in Newport Beach.  (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)

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With all the stores closed, Fashion Island is a ghost town except for an occasional customer getting food for take-out Newport Beach.  (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)

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People walk the beach, but maintain “social distancingâ€� during the coronavirus outbreak at Crystal Cove in Newport Beach.  (Gina Ferazzi/Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)

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During the coronavirus epidemic people continue to walk, ride thier bikes, and play basketball at Junipero Beach in Long Beach.  (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)

Newsom’s action orders “all individuals living in the state of California to stay home or at their place of residence, except as needed to maintain continuity of operation of the federal critical infrastructure sectors.� His order links to a Department of Homeland Security document that lists 16 “critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks� are considered vital to the United States. In addition to these exemptions, the governor’s office specified that child care and construction workers are also allowed to continue to work under his order.

Here is a detailed list of the exemptions from the federal documents:

HEALTHCARE / PUBLIC HEALTH:

Workers providing COVID-19 testing; Workers that perform critical clinical research needed for COVID-19 response • Caregivers (e.g., physicians, dentists, psychologists, mid-level practitioners, nurses and assistants, infection control and quality assurance personnel, pharmacists, physical and occupational therapists and assistants, social workers, speech pathologists and diagnostic and therapeutic technicians and technologists) • Hospital and laboratory personnel (including accounting, administrative, admitting and discharge, engineering, epidemiological, source plasma and blood donation, food service, housekeeping, medical records, information technology and operational technology, nutritionists, sanitarians, respiratory therapists, etc.) • Workers in other medical facilities (including Ambulatory Health and Surgical, Blood Banks, Clinics, Community Mental Health, Comprehensive Outpatient rehabilitation, End Stage Renal Disease, Health Departments, Home Health Care, Hospices, Hospitals, Long Term Care, Organ Pharmacies, Procurement Organizations, Psychiatric Residential, Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers) • Manufacturers, technicians, logistics and warehouse operators, and distributors of medical equipment, personal protective equipment (PPE), medical gases, pharmaceuticals, blood and blood products, vaccines, testing materials, laboratory supplies, cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting or sterilization supplies, and tissue and paper towel products • Public health / community health workers, including those who compile, model, analyze and communicate public health information • Blood and plasma donors and the employees of the organizations that operate and manage related activities • Workers that manage health plans, billing, and health information, who cannot practically work remotely • Workers who conduct community-based public health functions, conducting epidemiologic surveillance, compiling, analyzing and communicating public health information, who cannot practically work remotely • Workers performing cybersecurity functions at healthcare and public health facilities, who cannot practically work remotely • Workers conducting research critical to COVID-19 response • Workers performing security, incident management, and emergency operations functions at or on behalf of healthcare entities including healthcare coalitions, who cannot practically work remotely • Workers who support food, shelter, and social services, and other necessities of life for economically disadvantaged or otherwise needy individuals, such as those residing in shelters • Pharmacy employees necessary for filling prescriptions • Workers performing mortuary services, including funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemetery workers • Workers who coordinate with other organizations to ensure the proper recovery, handling, identification, transportation, tracking, storage, and disposal of human remains and personal effects; certify cause of death; and facilitate access to mental/behavioral health services to the family members, responders, and survivors of an incident.

LAW ENFORCEMENT, PUBLIC SAFETY, FIRST RESPONDERS:

Personnel in emergency management, law enforcement, Emergency Management Systems, fire, and corrections, including front line and management • Emergency Medical Technicians • 911 call center employees • Fusion Center employees • Hazardous material responders from government and the private sector. • Workers — including contracted vendors — who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting law enforcement and emergency service operations.

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE:

Workers supporting groceries, pharmacies and other retail that sells food and beverage products • Restaurant carry-out and quick serve food operations - Carry-out and delivery food employees • Food manufacturer employees and their supplier employees — to include those employed in food processing (packers, meat processing, cheese plants, milk plants, produce, etc.) facilities; livestock, poultry, seafood slaughter facilities; pet and animal feed processing facilities; human food facilities producing by-products for animal food; beverage production facilities; and the production of food packaging • Farm workers to include those employed in animal food, feed, and ingredient production, packaging, and distribution; manufacturing, packaging, and distribution of veterinary drugs; truck delivery and transport; farm and fishery labor needed to produce our food supply domestically • Farm workers and support service workers to include those who field crops; commodity inspection; fuel ethanol facilities; storage facilities; and other agricultural inputs • Employees and firms supporting food, feed, and beverage distribution, including warehouse workers, vendor-managed inventory controllers and blockchain managers • Workers supporting the sanitation of all food manufacturing processes and operations from wholesale to retail • Company cafeterias - in-plant cafeterias used to feed employees • Workers in food testing labs in private industries and in institutions of higher education • Workers essential for assistance programs and government payments • Employees of companies engaged in the production of chemicals, medicines, vaccines, and other substances used by the food and agriculture industry, including pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, minerals, enrichments, and other agricultural production aids • Animal agriculture workers to include those employed in veterinary health; manufacturing and distribution of animal medical materials, animal vaccines, animal drugs, feed ingredients, feed, and bedding, etc.; transportation of live animals, animal medical materials; transportation of deceased animals for disposal; raising of animals for food; animal production operations; slaughter and packing plants and associated regulatory and government workforce • Workers who support the manufacture and distribution of forest products, including, but not limited to timber, paper, and other wood products • Employees engaged in the manufacture and maintenance of equipment and other infrastructure necessary to agricultural production and distribution.

ENERGY

Electricity industry: Workers who maintain, ensure, or restore the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power, including call centers, utility workers, reliability engineers and fleet maintenance technicians • Workers needed for safe and secure operations at nuclear generation • Workers at generation, transmission, and electric blackstart facilities • Workers at Reliability Coordinator, Balancing Authorities and primary and backup Control Centers (CC), including but not limited to independent system operators, regional transmission organizations, and balancing authorities • Mutual assistance personnel • IT and OT technology staff – for Energy Management Systems and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems, and utility data centers; cybersecurity engineers; cybersecurity risk management • Vegetation management crews and traffic workers who support • Environmental remediation/monitoring technicians • Instrumentation, protection, and control technicians.

Petroleum workers: Petroleum product storage, pipeline, marine transport, terminals, rail transport, road transport • Crude oil storage facilities, pipeline, and marine transport • Petroleum refinery facilities • Petroleum security operations center employees and workers who support emergency response services • Petroleum operations control rooms/centers • Petroleum drilling, extraction, production, processing, refining, terminal operations, transporting, and retail for use as end-use fuels or feedstocks for chemical manufacturing • Onshore and offshore operations for maintenance and emergency response • Retail fuel centers such as gas stations and truck stops, and the distribution systems that support them.

Natural and propane gas workers: Natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines, including compressor stations • Underground storage of natural gas • Natural gas processing plants, and those that deal with natural gas liquids • Liquefied Natural Gas facilities • Natural gas security operations center, natural gas operations dispatch and control rooms/centers natural gas emergency response and customer emergencies, including natural gas leak calls • Drilling, production, processing, refining, and transporting natural gas for use as end-use fuels, feedstocks for chemical manufacturing, or use in electricity generation • Propane gas dispatch and control rooms and emergency response and customer emergencies, including propane leak calls • Propane gas service maintenance and restoration, including call centers. Processing, refining, and transporting natural liquids, including propane gas, for use as end-use fuels or feedstocks for chemical manufacturing • Propane gas storage, transmission, and distribution centers.

WATER AND WASTEWATER:

Employees needed to operate and maintain drinking water and wastewater/drainage infrastructure, including: • Operational staff at water authorities • Operational staff at community water systems • Operational staff at wastewater treatment facilities • Workers repairing water and wastewater conveyances and performing required sampling or monitoring • Operational staff for water distribution and testing • Operational staff at wastewater collection facilities • Operational staff and technical support for SCADA Control systems • Chemical disinfectant suppliers for wastewater and personnel protection • Workers that maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting water and wastewater operations.

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS:

Employees supporting or enabling transportation functions, including dispatchers, maintenance and repair technicians, warehouse workers, truck stop and rest area workers, and workers that maintain and inspect infrastructure (including those that require cross-border travel) • Employees of firms providing services that enable logistics operations, including cooling, storing, packaging, and distributing products for wholesale or retail sale or use. • Mass transit workers • Workers responsible for operating dispatching passenger, commuter and freight trains and maintaining rail infrastructure and equipment • Maritime transportation workers - port workers, mariners, equipment operators • Truck drivers who haul hazardous and waste materials to support critical infrastructure, capabilities, functions, and services • Automotive repair and maintenance facilities • Manufacturers and distributors (to include service centers and related operations) of packaging materials, pallets, crates, containers, and other supplies needed to support manufacturing, packaging staging and distribution operations • Postal and shipping workers, to include private companies • Employees who repair and maintain vehicles, aircraft, rail equipment, marine vessels, and the equipment and infrastructure that enables operations that encompass movement of cargo and passengers • Air transportation employees, including air traffic controllers, ramp personnel, aviation security, and aviation management • Workers who support the maintenance and operation of cargo by air transportation, including flight crews, maintenance, airport operations, and other on- and off- airport facilities workers.

PUBLIC WORKS:

Workers who support the operation, inspection, and maintenance of essential dams, locks and levees • Workers who support the operation, inspection, and maintenance of essential public works facilities and operations, including bridges, water and sewer main breaks, fleet maintenance personnel, construction of critical or strategic infrastructure, traffic signal maintenance, emergency location services for buried utilities, maintenance of digital systems infrastructure supporting public works operations, and other emergent issues • Workers such as plumbers, electricians, exterminators, and other service providers who provide services that are necessary to maintaining the safety, sanitation, and essential operation of residences • Support, such as road and line clearing, to ensure the availability of needed facilities, transportation, energy and communications • Support to ensure the effective removal, storage, and disposal of residential and commercial solid waste and hazardous waste.

COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:

Communications: Maintenance of communications infrastructure- including privately owned and maintained communication systems- supported by technicians, operators, call-centers, wireline and wireless providers, cable service providers, satellite operations, undersea cable landing stations, Internet Exchange Points, and manufacturers and distributors of communications equipment • Workers who support radio, television, and media service, including, but not limited to front line news reporters, studio, and technicians for newsgathering and reporting • Workers at Independent System Operators and Regional Transmission Organizations, and Network Operations staff, engineers and/or technicians to manage the network or operate facilities • Engineers, technicians and associated personnel responsible for infrastructure construction and restoration, including contractors for construction and engineering of fiber optic cables • Installation, maintenance and repair technicians that establish, support or repair service as needed • Central office personnel to maintain and operate central office, data centers, and other network office facilities • Customer service and support staff, including managed and professional services as well as remote providers of support to transitioning employees to set up and maintain home offices, who interface with customers to manage or support service environments and security issues, including payroll, billing, fraud, and troubleshooting • Dispatchers involved with service repair and restoration.

Information Technology: Workers who support command centers, including, but not limited to Network Operations Command Center, Broadcast Operations Control Center and Security Operations Command Center • Data center operators, including system administrators, HVAC & electrical engineers, security personnel, IT managers, data transfer solutions engineers, software and hardware engineers, and database administrators • Client service centers, field engineers, and other technicians supporting critical infrastructure, as well as manufacturers and supply chain vendors that provide hardware and software, and information technology equipment (to include microelectronics and semiconductors) for critical infrastructure • Workers responding to cyber incidents involving critical infrastructure, including medical facilities, SLTT governments and federal facilities, energy and utilities, and banks and financial institutions, and other critical infrastructure categories and personnel • Workers supporting the provision of essential global, national and local infrastructure for computing services (incl. cloud computing services), business infrastructure, web-based services, and critical manufacturing • Workers supporting communications systems and information technology used by law enforcement, public safety, medical, energy and other critical industries • Support required for continuity of services, including janitorial/cleaning personnel.

Community-based: Workers to ensure continuity of building functions • Security staff to maintain building access control and physical security measures • Elections personnel • Federal, State, and Local, Tribal, and Territorial employees who support Mission Essential Functions and communications networks • Trade Officials (FTA negotiators; international data flow administrators) • Weather forecasters • Workers that maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting other critical government operations • Workers at operations centers necessary to maintain other essential functions • Workers who support necessary credentialing, vetting and licensing operations for transportation workers • Customs workers who are critical to facilitating trade in support of the national emergency response supply chain • Educators supporting public and private K-12 schools, colleges, and universities for purposes of facilitating distance learning or performing other essential functions, if operating under rules for social distancing • Hotel Workers where hotels are used for COVID-19 mitigation and containment measures.

CRITICAL MANUFACTURING:

Workers necessary for the manufacturing of materials and products needed for medical supply chains, transportation, energy, communications, food and agriculture, chemical manufacturing, nuclear facilities, the operation of dams, water and wastewater treatment, emergency services, and the defense industrial base.

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS:

Workers at nuclear facilities, workers managing medical waste, workers managing waste from pharmaceuticals and medical material production, and workers at laboratories processing test kits • Workers who support hazardous materials response and cleanup • Workers who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting hazardous materials management operations.
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FINANCIAL SERVICES:

Workers who are needed to process and maintain systems for processing financial transactions and services (e.g., payment, clearing, and settlement; wholesale funding; insurance services; and capital markets activities) • Workers who are needed to provide consumer access to banking and lending services, including ATMs, and to move currency and payments (e.g., armored cash carriers) • Workers who support financial operations, such as those staffing data and security operations centers.

CHEMICAL:

Workers supporting the chemical and industrial gas supply chains, including workers at chemical manufacturing plants, workers in laboratories, workers at distribution facilities, workers who transport basic raw chemical materials to the producers of industrial and consumer goods, including hand sanitizers, food and food additives, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and paper products. • Workers supporting the safe transportation of chemicals, including those supporting tank truck cleaning facilities and workers who manufacture packaging items • Workers supporting the production of protective cleaning and medical solutions, personal protective equipment, and packaging that prevents the contamination of food, water, medicine, among others essential products • Workers supporting the operation and maintenance of facilities (particularly those with high risk chemicals and/or sites that cannot be shut down) whose work cannot be done remotely and requires the presence of highly trained personnel to ensure safe operations, including plant contract workers who provide inspections • Workers who support the production and transportation of chlorine and alkali manufacturing, single-use plastics, and packaging that prevents the contamination or supports the continued manufacture of food, water, medicine, and other essential products, including glass container manufacturing.

DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE:

Workers who support the essential services required to meet national security commitments to the federal government and U.S. Military. These individuals, include but are not limited to, aerospace; mechanical and software engineers, manufacturing/production workers; IT support; security staff; security personnel; intelligence support, aircraft and weapon system mechanics and maintainers • Personnel working for companies, and their subcontractors, who perform under contract to the Department of Defense providing materials and services to the Department of Defense, and government-owned/contractor-operated and government-owned/government-operated facilities.