2012 New York Consolidated Laws
EXC - Executive
Article 7 - (161 - 170-B*2) MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
168-A - Designation of days of commemoration.

 
    § 168-a. Designation   of   days   of   commemoration.  1.  A  day  of
  commemoration is a calendar day so  designated  by  this  section  or  a
  calendar  day  in  any  one  year so designated by a proclamation of the
  governor or resolution of the Senate and Assembly jointly adopted.
    2.  A  day  of  commemoration  shall  not  constitute  a  holiday   or
  half-holiday  but  shall  be  a day set aside in recognition and special
  honor of a person, persons, group ideal or goal.
    3. The following days shall be days of  commemoration  in  each  year:
  January   sixth,   to   be   known   as   "Haym  Salomon  Day",  January
  twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Holocaust  Remembrance  Day",  February
  fourth, to be known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known
  as   "Susan  B.  Anthony  Day",  February  sixteenth,  to  be  known  as
  "Lithuanian Independence Day", February twenty-eighth, to  be  known  as
  "Gulf  War  Veterans'  Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day",
  March tenth, to be known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to
  be known as "Vietnam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be  known  as  "POW
  Recognition  Day",  April  twenty-seventh, to be known as "Coretta Scott
  King Day", April twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial  Day",
  the  first  Tuesday  in May to be known as "New York State Teacher Day",
  May seventeenth, to be known  as  "Thurgood  Marshall  Day",  the  first
  Sunday  in  June,  to  be  known as "Children's Day", June second, to be
  known as "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women
  Veterans Recognition Day", June nineteenth, to be known  as  "Juneteenth
  Freedom  Day",  June  twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans'
  Day", August twenty-fourth, to be known as "Ukrainian Independence Day",
  August twenty-sixth, to be known as "Women's  Equality  Day",  September
  eleventh,  to  be  known  as  "Battle of Plattsburgh Day" and also to be
  known as "September 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth,  to  be
  known  as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in the
  State of New York", September seventeenth, to  be  known  as  "Friedrich
  Wilhelm  von  Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September to be
  known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of
  commemoration cannot be  observed  due  to  a  religious  holiday,  such
  observances  shall  then be conducted on the second Friday of September,
  the last Saturday in September, to be known as "War of  1812  Day",  the
  fourth  Saturday  of September, known as "Native-American Day", the last
  Sunday in September, to be known as "Gold Star  Mothers'  Day",  October
  fifth,  to  be  known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October eleventh, to be
  known as "New  Netherland  Day  in  the  State  of  New  York",  October
  eighteenth,   to   be  known  as  "Disabilities  History  Day",  October
  twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth,
  to be known as "Witness for Tolerance  Day",  November  twelfth,  to  be
  known  as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in November to
  be known as "New York  State  School-Related  Professionals  Recognition
  Day",  November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as  "Shirley  Chisholm Day",
  December third, to be  known  as  "International  Day  of  Persons  with
  Disabilities",  December  seventh,  to  be  known as "Pearl Harbor Day",
  December sixteenth, to be known as "Bastogne Day" and that  day  of  the
  Asian  lunar  calendar  designated as new year to be known as "Asian New
  Year".