CHAPTER 6

Holidays

SECTIONS

§ 601.              National holidays.

§ 602.              Conditions of observance.

§ 603.              Other holidays.

            § 601.  National holidays.

            The following days shall be observed as national holidays throughout the Federated States of Micronesia:

            (1)       the first day of January of each year, which is hereby designated as New Year’s Day;

            (2)       the tenth day of May of each year, which is hereby designated as Federated States of Micronesia Day to commemorate the effective date of the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia;

            (3)       the third day of November of each year, which is hereby designated as Independence Day to commemorate the termination of the United Nations Trusteeship Agreement as it applied to the Federated States of Micronesia and the commencement of full self-government for the people of the Federated States of Micronesia;

            (4)       the eleventh day of November of each year, which is hereby designated as FSM Veterans of Foreign Wars Day to commemorate those citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia serving in Foreign Wars through service in the armed forces of the United States of America;

            (5)       the twenty-fifth day of December of each year, which is hereby designated as Christmas Day;

            (6)       the twenty-fourth day of October of each year, which is hereby designated as United Nations Day; and

            (7)       the thirty-first day of March of each year, which is hereby designated as Micronesian Culture and Tradition Day.

Source:  TT Code 1966 §§ 17, 18; TT Code 1970, 1 TTC 251; TT Code 1980, 1 TTC 251; PL 4-86 § 1; PL 7-20 § 1; PL 13-38 § 1; PL 16-27 § 1.

Cross-reference:  The provisions of the Constitution are found in Part I of this code.

            § 602. Conditions of observance.

            All holidays set forth in section 601 of this chapter shall, if they occur on a Saturday, be observed on the preceding Friday, and shall, if they occur on a Sunday, be observed on the following Monday.

Source:  PL 1-28 § 1; PL 4-86 § 2.

            § 603.  Other holidays.

            No holidays other than those set forth in section 601 of this chapter shall be observed by any employee or official of the National Government of the Federated States of Micronesia.

Source:  PL 1-28 § 2; PL 4-86 § 3.