ENROLLED
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 18
BY REPRESENTATIVE JONES
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 1:55(E)(1)(g), relative to legal holidays; to establish the Friday of the Black
3 Bear Festival as a legal holiday in the parish of St. Mary; to authorize the clerk of
4 court of the Sixteenth Judicial District Court to close the clerk's office in observance
5 of the legal holiday; to provide for an exception; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 1:55(E)(1)(g) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง55. Days of public rest, legal holidays, and half-holidays
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10 E.(1)
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12 (g) In addition, in the parish of St. Mary, the Friday of the Black Bear
13 Festival shall be a legal holiday for the purpose of authorizing the clerk of court of
14 the Sixteenth Judicial District Court in the parish of St. Mary to close offices in
15 observance of that day, unless there is an election that requires the office to remain
16 open.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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