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                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 21, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. MILLMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. PHEFFER
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing the third
  Friday  in  September  of each year as a day of commemoration known as
  "PARK(ing) Day"

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of section 168-a of the executive law, as
separately amended by chapters 61, 90, 330 and 356 of the laws of  2008,
is amended to read as follows:
  3.  The  following  days  shall be days of commemoration in each year:
January sixth, to be known as "Haym Salomon Day", February fourth, to be
known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known as "Susan  B.
Anthony  Day",  February sixteenth, to be known as "Lithuanian Independ-
ence Day", February twenty-eighth, to be known as  "Gulf  War  Veterans'
Day",  March  fourth,  to  be known as "Pulaski Day", March tenth, to be
known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as "Viet-
nam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known as "POW  Recognition  Day",
April  twenty-seventh,  to  be  known as "Coretta Scott King Day", April
twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day", the first Tuesday
in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day", the first Sunday  in
June,  to  be  known  as  "Children's Day", June twelfth, to be known as
"Women Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "June-
teenth Freedom Day", June twenty-fifth,  to  be  known  as  "Korean  War
Veterans'  Day",  August  twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Inde-
pendence Day", September eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh
Day" and also to be known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September
thirteenth, to be known as "John Barry Day" and  also  to  be  known  as
"Uncle  Sam  Day in the State of New York", September seventeenth, to be
known as "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third  Friday
in September to be known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" AND

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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ALSO TO BE KNOWN AS "PARK(ING) DAY" except if such date of commemoration
cannot  be  observed  due to a religious holiday, such observances shall
then be conducted on the second Friday of September, the  last  Saturday
in  September,  to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the fourth Saturday of
September, known as "Native-American Day", the last Sunday in September,
to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October fifth, to be  known  as
"Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be known as "New Netherland
Day  in  the  State of New York", October twenty-seventh, to be known as
"Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth, to be known  as  "Witness  for
Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Day",  the  third  Tuesday  in  November  to be known as "New York State
School-Related Professionals Recognition Day", November thirtieth, to be
known as "Shirley Chisholm Day", December seventh, to be known as "Pearl
Harbor Day", December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and  that
day  of  the  Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be known as
"Asian New Year".
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.