By Joshua Huff, sports editor
SPRINGVILLE — The city of Springville announced on Thursday that the mayor has signed an executive order instituting a city-wide public safety curfew effective immediately.
Springville Mayor William Isley signed the order on Thursday, April 2, 2020. The curfew is designed to promote the health and safety of the citizens of Springville in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus. The 24-hour curfew while will remain in effect until midnight of April 15 unless the emergency conditions dictate otherwise.
The curfew applies to all citizens of Springville. Isley has charged the Springville Police Department with enacting the order. Those who fail to will be criminally charged.
The executive order does not mean that individuals cannot be outside during a particular period of time, but instead, it orders people to remain within their residence unless it is essential that they venture out.
The executive order states that non-work related groups of 10-or more are now prohibited even in public places such as public facilities, public parks and sidewalks. Other than for travel to perform essential tasks, people are ordered to stay home and remain isolated during the curfew.
People are also encouraged to refrain from inviting non-residents inside their homes.
For people that need to venture out, Alabama’s Statewide Public Health Order is a guide to the businesses that should be temporarily closed throughout the state.
Entertainment Venues
- Night clubs
- Bowling Alleys
- Arcades
- Concert Venues
- Theaters, auditoriums, and performing arts centers
- Tourist attractions (including museums and planetariums)
- Racetracks
- Indoor children’s play areas
- Adult entertainment venues
- Casinos
- Bingo Halls
- Venues operated by social clubs
Athletics facilities and actives as follows:
- Fitness centers and commercial gyms
- Spas and public or commercial swimming pools
- Toga, barre and spin facilities
- Spectator sports
- Sports that involve interaction with another person of closer than 6 feet
- Activities that require use of shared sporting apparatus and equipment
- Activities on commercial or public playground equipment
Close-contact service providers as follows:
- Barbershops
- Hair salons
- Waxing salons
- Threading salons
- Nail salons and spas
- Body-art facilities and tattoo services
- Tanning salons
- Massage-therapy establishments and massage services
Retail Stores as follows:
- Furniture and home-furnishing stores
- Clothing, shoe and clothing accessory stores
- Jewelry, luggage and leather good stores
- Department stores
- Sporting goods stores
- Book, craft and music stores
This follows the city of Birmingham issuing a shelter in place order this past week. The order is meant to deter people from leaving their residence for non-essential purposes. However, the order will not prevent people from leaving their homes.
People in Birmingham will be allowed to lawfully leave their residence while the ordnance is active within the first 24 hours to access workplaces to gather belongings and address administrative needs, to engage in essential activities like grocery shopping, to engage in outdoor activities that allow for social distancing, to provide services that are essential and to care for or support a friend, family member or pet.