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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="5-705" title_number="5" title_name="Banking Institutions -- General Provisions" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Bank Holidays">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, each banking institution shall be closed on the following legal holidays:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>New Year’s Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Washington’s Birthday;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Good Friday;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Memorial Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Independence Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Labor Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>Columbus Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>Veterans’ Day;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>Thanksgiving Day; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>Christmas Day.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>When a legal holiday differs from the corresponding federal holiday, a banking institution:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>May be closed on both holidays; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Shall be closed on one of the holidays.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>When there is no corresponding federal holiday for a legal holiday listed in paragraph (1) of this subsection, a banking institution:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>May be closed on the legal holiday; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>May remain open on the legal holiday.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each legal holiday that is not listed in subsection (a) of this section is an optional bank holiday.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>When, as to any optional bank holiday, the legal holiday differs from the corresponding federal holiday, a banking institution may be closed on:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Both holidays;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The legal holiday; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The federal holiday.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
