2021 Georgia Code
Title 1 - General Provisions
Chapter 4 - Holidays and Observances
§ 1-4-2. Religious Holidays
The only days to be declared, treated, and considered as religious holidays shall be the first day of each week, called Sunday.
(Ga. L. 1943, p. 331, § 2.)
Cross references.- Requirement that businesses and industries operating on either Saturday or Sunday accommodate religious, social, and physical needs of employees on those days, § 10-1-573.
Prohibition against requiring inmates to do nonessential work on Sunday, § 42-5-40.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Sunday, a religious holiday, is dies non juridicus (a nonjudicial day). Parker v. Mayor of Savannah, 216 Ga. 210, 115 S.E.2d 555 (1960).
Cited in Cain v. Lumpkin County, 229 Ga. 274, 190 S.E.2d 910 (1972); In re Estate of Dasher, 259 Ga. App. 201, 575 S.E.2d 921 (2002).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 73 Am. Jur. 2d, Sundays and Holidays, §§ 1, 2, 4, 11 et seq.
C.J.S.- 83 C.J.S., Sunday, §§ 1, 3.
ALR.
- Power of municipal corporation to legislate as to Sunday observance, 37 A.L.R. 575.
