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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Chapter 4. HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

1-4-2. Religious holidays.

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  1. The only days to be declared, treated, and considered as religious holidays shall be the first day of each week, called Sunday.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1943, p. 331, § 2.

Cross references

Requirement that businesses and industries operating on either Saturday or Sunday accommodate religious, social, and physical needs of employees on those days, § 10-1-573. Prohibition against requiring inmates to do nonessential work on Sunday, § 42-5-40.

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