NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 521

HOUSE BILL 48

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR UNIFORM ANNUAL OBSERVANCES OF CERTAIN LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAYS ON MONDAYS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 103-4 as the same appears in the 1965 Replacement Volume 2D of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"G.S. 103-4.  Dates of Public Holidays.

(a)        The following are declared to be legal public holidays:

(1)        New Year's Day, January 1.

(2)        Robert E. Lee's Birthday, January 19.

(3)        Washington's Birthday, the third Monday in February.

(4)        Anniversary of signing of Halifax Resolves, April 12.

(5)        Confederate Memorial Day, May 10.

(6)        Anniversary of Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20.

(7)        Memorial Day, the last Monday in May.

(8)        Easter Monday.

(9)        Independence Day, July 4.

(10)      Labor Day, the first Monday in September.

(11)      Columbus Day, the second Monday in October.

(12)      Veterans Day, the fourth Monday in October.

(13)      Tuesday after the first Monday in November in years in which a general election is to be held.

(14)      Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November.

(15)      Christmas Day, December 25.

Provided that Easter Monday and Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, shall be a holiday for all state and national banks only.

(b)        Whenever any public holiday shall fall upon Sunday, the Monday following shall be a public holiday."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and alter January 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1969.