Bill Text: MI SB0569 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Holidays; other; public holidays; modify to remove Columbus Day as a public holiday in Michigan and add Indigenous Peoples' Day and election day. Amends sec. 1 of 1865 PA 124 (MCL 435.101). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0568'19
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-10-10 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SB0569 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB0569-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL NO. 569
October 10, 2019, Introduced by Senators
MCMORROW, GEISS, MOSS, IRWIN, HERTEL, ANANICH, CHANG, POLEHANKI, ALEXANDER,
BULLOCK, BAYER, SANTANA, WOJNO and HOLLIER and referred to the Committee on
Government Operations.
A bill to amend 1865 PA 124, entitled
"An act to designate the holidays to be observed in acceptance and payment of bills of exchange, bank checks and promissory notes, the business of banking, savings and loan, building and loan, municipal offices, the holding of courts and relative to the continuance of suits,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 435.101), as amended by 1984 PA 4.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 1. (1) The following days, namely: for all purposes related to the presenting for payment or acceptance of, and the protesting and giving notice of the dishonor of, bills of exchange, bank checks, and promissory notes, and for the holding of courts, except as otherwise provided in this act, shall be treated and considered as the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and as public holidays or as half-holidays, if so designated:
(a) January 1, New Year's day; the Day.
(b) The third Monday in January in conjunction with the federal holiday, Martin Luther King, Jr. day; Day.
(c) February 12, Lincoln's birthday; the Birthday.
(d) The third Monday of February, Washington's birthday; the Birthday.
(e) The last Monday of May, Memorial or Decoration day; Day.
(f) July 4. ; the
(g) The first Monday in September, Labor day; the Day.
(h) The second Monday in October, Columbus day; Indigenous Peoples' Day.
(i) The first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, election day.
(j) November 11, Veterans' day; Day.
(k) The fourth Thursday of November, Thanksgiving Day.
(l) December 25, Christmas day; every Day.
(m) Every Saturday from 12 noon until 12 midnight, which is designated a half holiday; and the fourth Thursday of November, Thanksgiving day, for all purposes regarding the presenting for payment or acceptance, and the protesting and giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks, and promissory notes, also for the holding of courts, except as otherwise provided in this act, shall be treated and considered as the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and as public holidays or half holidays. half-holiday.
(2) Bills, checks, and notes otherwise presentable for acceptance of payment on these days a public holiday or half-holiday described in subsection (1) shall be considered as payable and presentable for acceptance or payment on the next secular or business day following the that holiday or half holiday. half-holiday.
(3) A law in this state shall not affect the validity of, or render void or voidable, the payment, certification, or acceptance of a check or other negotiable instrument or any other transaction by a bank in this state, because done or performed on a Saturday between 12 noon and midnight, if the payment, certification, acceptance, or other transaction would be valid if done or performed before 12 noon on that Saturday.
(4) This act does not compel a bank, savings and loan association, or building and loan association in this state , which that by law or custom is entitled to close at 12 noon on a Saturday , to keep remain open for the transaction of business or to perform the acts or transactions described in this section , on a Saturday after that hour except at its own option. in
(5) In construing this section, every Saturday, unless a whole holiday, shall for the holding of court and the transaction of business authorized by the laws of this state be considered a secular or business day.
(6) If the return or adjourn day in an action, matter, or hearing before a court, officer, referee, or arbitrators, arbitrator falls on any of the days mentioned described in this section subsection (1) except a Sunday, then that action, matter, or proceeding, commenced or adjourned, shall not, by reason of coming on any of those days except a Sunday, abate, but shall stand continued on the next succeeding day, at the same time and place unless the next day is the first day of the week, or a holiday, in which case it shall stand continued to the day succeeding the first day of the week or holiday, at the same time and place.
(7) When the first day of the general term of a circuit court, as fixed by the order of a circuit judge, falls upon either of the days mentioned on any of the days described in this section subsection (1) or when a circuit court is adjourned to a day mentioned day described in this section, subsection (1) that court may be adjourned to the following succeeding secular day.
(8) This act shall does not prevent or invalidate the entry, issuance, service, or execution of a writ, summons, or confession of judgment, or other legal process, the holding of courts, or the transaction of lawful business except banking on any of the Saturday afternoons designated in this act as half holidays, nor shall this half-holidays.
(9) This act does not prevent a bank, savings and loan association, or building and loan association from keeping its doors remaining open or transacting its business on Saturday afternoons, if by vote of its directors it elects to do so.
(10) The legislative body of a county or city may, by ordinance or resolution, provide for the closing of county or municipal offices for any or for all purposes purpose on every Saturday.
(11) This act shall not affect state employees working on a Sunday in accordance with their employment as construed by the civil service commission.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 568 of the 100th Legislature is enacted into law.
