legal holiday
noun
: a holiday established by legal authority and marked by restrictions on work and transaction of official business
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Congress quickly passed an act making Labor Day a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
Ogilvie’s successor, Gov. Dan Walker, signed a bill creating the legal holiday while also approving a measure to prohibit the state from ordering busing to achieve racial balance in public schools.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
In 1894, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday and President Grover Cleveland signed it into law.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
By 1894, 23 more states had adopted the holiday, and on June 28, 1884, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2023
Senate Bill 350 called for marking Juneteenth Independence Day as a legal holiday to commemorate the day when slaves finally learned that they had been freed.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022
However, July 4th was not declared a legal holiday until 1941.
—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2023
Alabama is the last state to have a legal holiday set aside solely to commemorate the birth of Davis.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 5 June 2023
And, as with many other tax filing deadlines, if the last day falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday in the District of Columbia, the deadline is extended to the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 4 May 2023
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
Ogilvie’s successor, Gov. Dan Walker, signed a bill creating the legal holiday while also approving a measure to prohibit the state from ordering busing to achieve racial balance in public schools.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
In 1894, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday and President Grover Cleveland signed it into law.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
By 1894, 23 more states had adopted the holiday, and on June 28, 1884, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2023
Senate Bill 350 called for marking Juneteenth Independence Day as a legal holiday to commemorate the day when slaves finally learned that they had been freed.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022
However, July 4th was not declared a legal holiday until 1941.
—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2023
Alabama is the last state to have a legal holiday set aside solely to commemorate the birth of Davis.
—Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 5 June 2023
And, as with many other tax filing deadlines, if the last day falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday in the District of Columbia, the deadline is extended to the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 4 May 2023
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1805, in the meaning defined above
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legal holiday
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: a holiday established by legal authority
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