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                                   8892
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 30, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the general construction law, in relation to declaring
   October first, China Day, a public holiday
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section 24 of the general construction law, as amended by
 chapter 347 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   § 24. Public holidays; half-holidays. The term public holiday includes
 the following days in each year:  the first day of January, known as New
 Year's day; the third Monday of January,  known  as  Dr.  Martin  Luther
 King, Jr. day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday;
 the  third  Monday in February, known as Washington's birthday; the last
 Monday in May, known as Memorial day; the second Sunday in  June,  known
 as  Flag  day;  the  fourth  day of July, known as Independence day; the
 first Monday in September, known as Labor day;  THE  FIRST  OF  OCTOBER,
 KNOWN AS CHINA DAY; the second Monday in October, known as Columbus day;
 the  eleventh day of November, known as Veterans' day; the fourth Thurs-
 day in November, known as Thanksgiving day; and the twenty-fifth day  of
 December,  known  as  Christmas day, and if any of such days except Flag
 day is Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general election  day,  and
 each  day  appointed  by  the  president  of the United States or by the
 governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiving, general fasting
 and prayer, or other general religious observances. The term  half-holi-
 day  includes the period from noon to midnight of each Saturday which is
 not a public holiday.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
 ly  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal  of any rule or regulation
 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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