STATE OF NEW YORK
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3416--B
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW, KOLB, TOWNS, JAFFEE, GLICK, DESTITO,
FIELDS, REILLY, HEASTIE, DelMONTE, CHRISTENSEN, MAISEL, HOOPER, SPANO,
ORTIZ, GUNTHER, GIBSON, BRODSKY, GORDON, HOYT, CASTRO, SCARBOROUGH,
BARRON, WRIGHT, THIELE, STIRPE, CLARK, TITUS -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. ALESSI, BACALLES, COOK, CROUCH, DUPREY, FARRELL, JOHN, WEIN-
STEIN, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judi-
ciary -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the
Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general construction law, in relation to the desig-
nation of Harriet Tubman day
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 24 of the general construction law, as amended by
2 chapter 347 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 24. Public holidays; half-holidays. The term public holiday includes
4 the following days in each year: the first day of January, known as New
5 Year's day; the third Monday of January, known as Dr. Martin Luther
6 King, Jr. day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday;
7 the third Monday in February, known as Washington's birthday; the tenth
8 day of March, known as Harriet Tubman day; the last Monday in May, known
9 as Memorial day; the second Sunday in June, known as Flag day; the
10 fourth day of July, known as Independence day; the first Monday in
11 September, known as Labor day; the second Monday in October, known as
12 Columbus day; the eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day; the
13 fourth Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving day; and the twenty-
14 fifth day of December, known as Christmas day, and if any of such days
15 except Flag day is Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general
16 election day, and each day appointed by the president of the United
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 States or by the governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiv-
2 ing, general fasting and prayer, or other general religious observances.
3 The term half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of each
4 Saturday which is not a public holiday.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
6 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
