Senate Bill No. 152
(By Senators Hunter and Oliverio)
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[Introduced February 10, 2005; referred to the Committee
on Government Organization; and then to the Committee on the
Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §2-2-1 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to permitting county commissions to
alter, in a certain manner, the observance of legal holidays
for county employees.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §2-2-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. LEGAL HOLIDAYS; SPECIAL MEMORIAL DAYS; CONSTRUCTION OF
STATUTES; DEFINITIONS.
§2-2-1. Legal holidays; official acts or court proceedings.
(a) The following days are legal holidays:
(1) The first day of January is "New Year's Day";
(2) The third Monday of January is "Martin Luther King's
Birthday";
(3) The twelfth day of February is "Lincoln's Birthday";
(4) The third Monday of February is "Washington's Birthday";
(5) The last Monday in May is "Memorial Day";
(6) The twentieth day of June is "West Virginia Day";
(7) The fourth day of July is "Independence Day";
(8) The first Monday of September is "Labor Day";
(9) The second Monday of October is "Columbus Day";
(10) The eleventh day of November is "Veterans' Day";
(11) The fourth Thursday of November is "Thanksgiving Day";
(12) The twenty-fifth day of December is "Christmas Day";
(13) Any day on which a general, primary or special election
is held is a holiday throughout the state, a political subdivision
of the state, a district or an incorporated city, town or village
in which the election is conducted;
(14) General election day on even years
shall be is designated
Susan B. Anthony Day, in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (b), section one-a of this article; and
(15) Any day proclaimed or ordered by the Governor or the
President of the United States as a day of special observance or
Thanksgiving, or a day for the general cessation of business, is a
holiday.
(b) If a holiday otherwise described in subsection (a) of this
section falls on a Sunday, then the following Monday is the legal
holiday. If a holiday otherwise described in said subsection falls
on a Saturday, then the preceding Friday is the legal holiday:
Provided, That this subsection
(b) shall may not apply to subdivision (13), subsection (a) of this section.
(c) Any day or part thereof designated by the Governor as time
off, without charge against accrued annual leave, for state
employees statewide may also be time off for county employees if
the county commission elects to designate the day or part thereof
as time off, without charge against accrued annual leave for county
employees. Any entire or part statewide day off designated by the
Governor may, for all courts, be treated as if it were a legal
holiday.
(d) In computing any period of time prescribed by any
applicable provision of this code or any legislative rule or other
administrative rule
or regulation promulgated pursuant to the
provisions of this code, the day of the act, event, default or
omission from which the applicable period begins to run is not
included. The last day of the period so computed is included,
unless it is a Saturday, a Sunday, a legal holiday or a designated
day off in which event the prescribed period of time runs until the
end of the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday
or designated day off.
(e) If any applicable provision of this code or any
legislative rule or other administrative rule
or regulation
promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this code designates a
particular date on, before or after which an act, event, default or
omission is required or allowed to occur, and if the particular date designated falls on a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday or
designated day off, then the date on which the act, event, default
or omission is required or allowed to occur is the next day that is
not a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday or designated day off.
(f) With regard to the courts of this state, the computation
of periods of time, the specific dates or days when an act, event,
default or omission is required or allowed to occur and the
relationship of those time periods and dates to Saturdays, Sundays,
legal holidays or days designated as weather or other emergency
days pursuant to section two of this article are governed by rules
promulgated by the Supreme Court of Appeals.
(g) The provisions of this section do not increase or diminish
the legal school holidays provided
for in section two, article
five, chapter eighteen-a of this code.
(h) County commissions may designate one day as a legal
holiday, which would not otherwise have been a legal holiday, as a
substitute for the observance of a regularly scheduled legal
holiday.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to permit counties some
flexibility in scheduling the observance of holidays to more suit
the wishes of their employees.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.)
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GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
On page four, section one, line nineteen, after the word
"holiday" by changing the period to a colon and adding the
following proviso:
Provided, That the same regularly scheduled
holiday may not be substituted two consecutive years.