S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 13, 2011
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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 31, 72, 180 and 199 of the laws of 2010,
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", January twenty-sev-
enth, to be known as "Holocaust Remembrance 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", May seventeenth, to
be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in June, to be
known as "Children's Day", June second, to be known as "Italian Inde-
pendence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans Recognition
Day", June nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom Day", June
twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day", August twenty-
fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day", August twenty-
sixth, to be known as "Women's Equality 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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 ALSO TO BE KNOWN AS "PARK(ING) DAY"
except if such date of commemoration cannot be observed due to a reli-
gious 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-Ameri-
can Day", the last Sunday in September, to be known as "Gold Star Moth-
ers' 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 eighteenth, to be known as "Disabilities History Day", 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", Decem-
ber 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.