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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-201" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Holiday Leave">
  <text>In this title, “employee holiday” includes:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>January 1, for New Year’s Day;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>January 15, for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, unless the United States Congress designates another day for observance of that legal holiday, in which case, the day designated by the United States Congress;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>the third Monday in February, for Presidents’ Day;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>May 30, for Memorial Day, unless the United States Congress designates another day for observance of that legal holiday, in which case, the day designated by the United States Congress;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>June 19, for Juneteenth National Independence Day;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>July 4, for Independence Day;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>the first Monday in September, for Labor Day;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>October 12, for Columbus Day, unless the United States Congress designates another day for observance of that legal holiday, in which case, the day designated by the United States Congress;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="9">
    <text>November 11, for Veterans’ Day;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="10">
    <text>the fourth Thursday in November, for Thanksgiving Day;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="11">
    <text>the Friday after Thanksgiving Day, for American Indian Heritage Day;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="12">
    <text>December 25, for Christmas Day;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="13">
    <text>each statewide general election day in this State; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="14">
    <text>each other day that the President of the United States or the Governor designates for general cessation of business.</text>
  </level>
</section>
