Section 371 - Legal holidays(a) The following shall be legal holidays:(1) New Year's Day, January 1;(2) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday, the third Monday in January;(3) Presidents' Day, the third Monday in February;(4) Town Meeting Day, the first Tuesday in March;(5) Memorial Day, the last Monday in May;(7) Independence Day, July 4;(8) Bennington Battle Day, August 16;(9) Labor Day, the first Monday in September;(10) Indigenous Peoples' Day, the second Monday in October;(11) Veterans' Day, November 11;(12) Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November;(13) Christmas Day, December 25.(b) All State departments, agencies and offices shall observe any legal holiday which falls on a Saturday on the preceding Friday and any legal holiday which falls on a Sunday on the following Monday; however, all other conditions of employment related to legal holidays, including decisions such as the closing or opening of State offices and compensation for work performed on such a day, shall be proper matters for collective bargaining pursuant to 3 V.S.A. § 904.(c) The provisions of this section shall not affect any collective bargaining agreement in existence on the effective date hereof.Amended by 2024, No. 140,§ 1, eff. 5/30/2024.Amended 1969, No. 202 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. date, see note set out below; 1973, No. 71, §1, eff. 1/1/1974; 1973, No. 150 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; eff. 3/11/1974; 1975, No. 133 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. 2/6/1976; 1985, No. 251 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2003, No. 83 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2017, No. 130 (Adj. Sess.), §20; 2019 , No. 18, § 2.