STATE OF NEW YORK
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11350
IN ASSEMBLY
September 19, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fernandez)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the general construction law in relation to establishing
Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha as public holidays
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 last
8 Monday in May, known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in June, known
9 as Flag day; the fourth day of July, known as Independence day; the
10 first Monday in September, known as Labor day; the second Monday in
11 October, known as Columbus day; the eleventh day of November, known as
12 Veterans' day; the fourth Thursday in November, known as Thanksgiving
13 day; and the twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day; the
14 holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha, as affixed by Muslim religious
15 law and tradition, and if any of such days except Flag day is Sunday,
16 the next day thereafter; each general election day, and each day
17 appointed by the president of the United States or by the governor of
18 this state as a day of general thanksgiving, general fasting and prayer,
19 or other general religious observances. The term half-holiday includes
20 the period from noon to midnight of each Saturday which is not a public
21 holiday.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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