At today’s video conference, Mayor Lenny Curry announced an Executive Order prohibiting all hotels, motels, and commercial lodging establishments from accepting or extending reservations for any person other than Essential Lodgers effective 5pm tomorrow.
Message From Mayor Lenny Curry
Today I have signed an Executive Order prohibiting all hotels, motels, and other commercial lodging establishments from accepting or extending reservations for any person other thanEssential Lodgerseffective 5 p.m. tomorrow.
The following are defined as essential lodgers:
- Healthcare professionals,
- First responders,
- National Guard members,
- Law enforcement,
- State or federal government employees,
- Airline crewmembers,
- Patients,
- Patients’ families,
- Journalists,
- Others responding to COVID-19,
- Displaced residents or visitors,
- Persons unable to return to their home due to COVID-19 impacts on travel,
- Persons who must vacate their home due to exigent circumstances, such as fire or flood,
- Persons utilizing hotels as transitional living arrangements,
- Persons sheltering in hotels due to domestic violence,
- Hotel employees, service providers, and contractors, or
- Individuals who, for any reason, are temporarily unable to reside in their home.