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Arizona Revised Statutes Title 38. Public Officers and Employees § 38-608. Compensation or time off for legal holidays

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

A. All public employees who work forty hours or more per week who do not receive either compensation or commensurate time off for legal holidays worked, regardless of the day of the week on which such legal holidays fall, shall receive, for each such holiday worked, one day additional vacation leave or one day additional compensation for each such legal holiday worked.

B. For the purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Legal holiday” includes Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor day, New Year's day and Independence day.

2. “Public employee” includes the employees of the state, a county, city, town or any other political subdivision of the state, but does not include irrigation, power, electrical, agricultural, improvement, drainage and flood control districts, and tax-levying public improvement districts organized pursuant to law.

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