Municipal Services

Executive Order 142 Regarding Construction Projects

Updated: May 15, 2:00 p.m.

As per Governor Murphy’s Executive Order 142, the physical operations of all construction projects that were not designated as essential in Executive Order No. 122 (2020) are permitted to resume, subject to conditions (see below) when this order takes effect Monday, May 18, 2020 at 6 a.m.

Ahead of Monday, the Millburn Building Department has implemented policies and procedures in regards to permit payments and pick-ups.

Our policies and procedures are as follows:

• Building Department will call the applicant after processing and advise them whether the permit will be mailed or picked up at a specific time. Some permit packages are too large to be mailed;
• If picking up, applicant will call Building Department upon arrival, and after speaking with a staff member will drop off payment in the vestibule at the entrance to Town Hall. Afterwards, a staff member will leave the plans in the vestibule for them to pick up;
• For permits that will be mailed out, applicants can drop off payments in the drop box outside Town Hall, or mail to 375 Millburn Avenue.
• Please note that Town Hall is closed to the public, so all business will be conducted remotely;
• Permit numbers, once paid, will be emailed to the email addressed provided on the application, if applicable, to allow the contractor and/or homeowner to schedule inspections via the online portal;
• The SDL Online Permit Portal will be the primary use for scheduling inspections. Please visit: SDL Portal;
• Please note that due to higher than normal inspection requests, your first requested date may not be available;
• All work must follow the conditions in accordance with E.O. 142, which can be viewed at Executive Order No. 142 (PDF)

Please note that we ask that you utilize the SDL portal to its full advantage, including but not limited to, checking the status of your permit and scheduling inspections.

Due to higher than normal call volumes, hold times may be longer than normal. Please help us help you in moving your permit and inspection along by refraining from calling the office for non-emergent issues. Permits and inspections are being processed in the order they are received.

All businesses engaged in construction projects in the State, whether or not the projects were designated as essential under Executive Order No. 122 (2020), must adopt policies that include, at minimum, the following requirements:

• Prohibit non-essential visitors from entering the worksite;
• Engage in appropriate social distancing measures when picking up or delivering equipment or materials;
• Limit worksite meetings, inductions, and workgroups to groups of fewer than 10 individuals;
• Require individuals to maintain six feet or more distance between them wherever possible;
• Stagger work start and stop times where practicable to limit the number of individuals entering and leaving the worksite concurrently;
• Identify congested and “high-risk areas,” including but not limited to lunchrooms, breakrooms, portable rest rooms, and elevators, and limit the number of individuals at those sites concurrently where practicable;
• Stagger lunch breaks and work times where practicable to enable operations to safely continue while utilizing the least number of individuals possible at the site;
• Require workers and visitors to wear cloth face coverings, in accordance with CDC recommendations, while on the premises, except where doing so would inhibit the individual’s health or those under two years of age, and require workers to wear gloves while on the premises. Businesses must provide, at their expense, such face coverings and gloves for their employees. If a visitor refuses to wear a cloth face covering for non-medical reasons and if such covering cannot be provided to the individual by the business at the point of entry, then the business must decline entry to the individual. Nothing in the stated policy should prevent workers or visitors from wearing a surgical-grade mask or other more protective face covering if the individual is already in possession of such equipment, or if the businesses is otherwise required to provide such worker with more protective equipment due to the nature of the work involved. Where an individual declines to wear a face covering on the premises due to a medical condition that inhibits such usage, neither the business nor its staff shall require the individual to produce medical documentation verifying the stated condition;
• Require infection control practices, such as regular hand washing, coughing and sneezing etiquette, and proper tissue usage and disposal;
• Limit sharing of tools, equipment, and machinery;
• Where running water is not available, provide portable washing stations with soap and/or alcohol-based hand sanitizers that have greater than 60% ethanol or 70% isopropanol;
• Require frequent sanitization of high-touch areas like restrooms, breakrooms, equipment, and machinery;
• When the worksite is an occupied residence, require workers to sanitize work areas and keep a distance of at least six feet from the occupants; and
• Place signage at entrances and throughout the worksite detailing the above mandates.