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18A.190 Holidays for state personnel -- Military spouses to receive paid deployment and return days off.

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18A.190 Holidays for state personnel -- Military spouses to receive paid deployment and return days off. (1) State offices shall be closed and state employees shall be given a holiday on the following days: <br>(a) The first day of January plus one (1) extra day; <br>(b) The third Monday in January; <br>(c) Good Friday, one-half (1/2) day; <br>(d) The last Monday in May; <br>(e) The fourth day of July; <br>(f) The first Monday in September; <br>(g) The eleventh day of November; <br>(h) Presidential election day as required under KRS 2.190; <br>(i) The fourth Thursday in November plus one (1) extra day; and <br>(j) The twenty-fifth day of December plus one (1) extra day. (2) When any of the days enumerated in subsection (1) falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be observed as the holiday, and when any of the days <br>enumerated in subsection (1) falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be <br>observed as the holiday. When one (1) extra day is mentioned in paragraphs (a), (i) <br>and (j) of subsection (1), the Governor shall designate the extra day. (3) Any state employee who is the spouse of a member of the United States Armed Forces, including a member of a state National Guard or a Reserve component on <br>federal active duty, shall receive, at the discretion of the state employee, one (1) day <br>off, with pay, from work when the member is deployed and one (1) day off, with <br>pay, from work when the member returns from deployment. (4) The holidays set out in this section are in addition to vacation leave and other benefits of state employees. Effective: April 25, 2006 <br>History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 252, Pt. XXVIII, sec. 8, effective April 25, 2006. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 576, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1990 <br>Ky. Acts ch. 25, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990. -- Repealed, reenacted, and amended <br>as KRS 18A.190, 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 448, sec. 38, effective July 15, 1982. -- Created <br>1972 Ky. Acts ch. 289, sec. 1. Formerly codified as KRS 18.350.