GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 25

HOUSE BILL 39

 

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE DATE FOR THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY TO THE SAME DATE PROVIDED BY FEDERAL LAW AND TO PROVIDE FOR A PAID HOLIDAY FOR STATE EMPLOYEES ON THAT DATE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 103-4(a)(1a) is amended by deleting "January 15", and substituting "the third Monday in January".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 126-4(5) is amended by adding the following at the end:  "The legal public holidays established by the Commission as paid holidays for State employees shall include Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, Birthday for all years after 1987.  Provided, however, that the Commission shall not provide for a greater number of total paid holidays than were established for the year 1986.  The Commission shall not delete Veterans Day as a holiday."

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of March, 1987.