PRINTER'S NO. 1037
No. 881 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY CORMAN, LOEPER, RHOADES, ZEMPRELLI, LINCOLN AND
ANDREZESKI, JUNE 27, 1983
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 27, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," providing for general, municipal and
6 primary election days to be legal holidays.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 1502 of the act of March 10, 1949
10 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949,
11 amended January 24, 1966 (1965 P.L.1508, No.529), is amended to
12 read:
13 Section 1502. Days Schools not to be Kept Open.--No school
14 shall be kept open on any Saturday for the purpose of ordinary
15 instruction, except when Monday is fixed by the board of school
16 directors as the weekly holiday, or on Sunday, Memorial Day,
17 Fourth of July, [or] Christmas or on any general, municipal or
18 primary election day, nor shall any school be kept open in any
19 district during the time of holding the teachers' institute for
1 such district. Whenever Memorial day shall be on a Sunday, the
2 following Monday shall be a holiday.
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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