NY Pub Off L § 63 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBO - Public Officers Article 4 - Powers and Duties of Public Officers 63 - Leave of Absence for Veterans on Memorial Day and Veterans' Day.

§ 63. Leave of absence for veterans on Memorial day and Veterans' day.   It shall be the duty of the head of every public department and of every   court  of  the  state of New York, of every superintendent or foreman on   the public works of said state, of the county officers  of  the  several   counties  of  said  state,  of the town officers of the various towns in   this state, of the fire district officers of the various fire  districts   in this state, and of the head of every department, bureau and office in   the government of the various cities and villages in this state, and the   officers  of  any  public benefit corporation or any public authority of   this state, or of any public benefit corporation or public authority  of   any  county  or subdivision of this state, to give leave of absence with   pay for twenty-four hours on the day  prescribed  by  law  as  a  public   holiday  for  the  observance of Memorial day and on the eleventh day of   November, known as Veterans' day, to every person in the service of  the   state, the county, the town, the fire district, the city or village, the   public  benefit  corporation  or  public authority of this state, or any   public  benefit  corporation  or  public  authority  of  any  county  or   subdivision  of this state, as the case may be, (i) who served on active   duty in the armed forces of the United States  during  world  war  I  or   world  war II, or who was employed by the War Shipping Administration or   Office of Defense Transportation or their agents as  a  merchant  seaman   documented  by  the United States Coast Guard or Department of Commerce,   or as a civil servant employed  by  the  United  States  Army  Transport   Service  (later  redesignated  as  the United States Army Transportation   Corps, Water Division) or the  Naval  Transportation  Service;  and  who   served  satisfactorily  as  a  crew  member  during  the period of armed   conflict,  December  seventh,  nineteen  hundred  forty-one,  to  August   fifteenth,  nineteen  hundred  forty-five,  aboard  merchant  vessels in   oceangoing, i.e., foreign, intercoastal, or coastwise  service  as  such   terms  are defined under federal law (46 USCA 10301 & 10501) and further   to include "near foreign" voyages between the United States and  Canada,   Mexico,  or  the  West  Indies  via  ocean  routes, or public vessels in   oceangoing service or foreign waters and who has received a  Certificate   of Release or Discharge from Active Duty and a discharge certificate, or   an Honorable Service Certificate/Report of Casualty, from the Department   of  Defense,  or  who served as a United States civilian employed by the   American Field Service and served overseas under  United  States  Armies   and United States Army Groups in world war II during the period of armed   conflict,  December  seventh,  nineteen  hundred  forty-one  through May   eighth, nineteen hundred forty-five,  and  who  (a)  was  discharged  or   released  therefrom  under honorable conditions, or (b) has a qualifying   condition, as defined in section three hundred fifty  of  the  executive   law, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable   from  such  service,  or (c) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in   section three hundred fifty of the executive law,  and  has  received  a   discharge  other  than  bad conduct or dishonorable from such service or   who served as a United States civilian Flight Crew and  Aviation  Ground   Support   Employee   of  Pan  American  World  Airways  or  one  of  its   subsidiaries or its affiliates and served overseas as a  result  of  Pan   American's  contract  with  Air Transport Command or Naval Air Transport   Service during  the  period  of  armed  conflict,  December  fourteenth,   nineteen  hundred  forty-one through August fourteenth, nineteen hundred   forty-five, and who (d)  was  discharged  or  released  therefrom  under   honorable  conditions,  or (e) has a qualifying condition, as defined in   section three hundred fifty of the executive law,  and  has  received  a   discharge  other  than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, or   (f) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in  section  three  hundred   fifty  of the executive law, and has received a discharge other than bad    conduct or dishonorable from such service or during the  period  of  the   Korean  conflict  at  any time between the dates of June twenty-seventh,   nineteen  hundred  fifty  and  January  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred   fifty-five,  or  during  the  period  of  the  Vietnam conflict from the   twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred sixty-one to the seventh   day of May, nineteen hundred seventy-five, or (ii) who served on  active   duty in the armed forces of the United States and who was a recipient of   the armed forces expeditionary medal, navy expeditionary medal or marine   corps  expeditionary  medal  for  participation in operations in Lebanon   from June  first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-three  to  December  first,   nineteen  hundred  eighty-seven,  in  Grenada from October twenty-third,   nineteen hundred eighty-three to November twenty-first, nineteen hundred   eighty-three, or in Panama from  December  twentieth,  nineteen  hundred   eighty-nine  to  January thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety, or (iii)   who served in the armed forces of a  foreign  country  allied  with  the   United  States  during world war I or world war II, or during the period   of the Korean conflict at any time between June twenty-seventh, nineteen   hundred fifty and January thirty-first, nineteen hundred fifty-five,  or   during  the  period  of  the  Vietnam  conflict  from  the  first day of   November, nineteen  hundred  fifty-five  to  the  seventh  day  of  May,   nineteen  hundred seventy-five, or during the period of the Persian Gulf   conflict from the second day of August, nineteen hundred ninety  to  the   end  of  such conflict, or who served on active duty in the army or navy   or marine corps or air force or coast guard of the  United  States,  and   who  (a)  was  honorably discharged or separated from such service under   honorable conditions, or (b) has a qualifying condition, as  defined  in   section  three  hundred  fifty  of the executive law, and has received a   discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such  service,  or   (c)  is  a  discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section three hundred   fifty of the executive law, and has received a discharge other than  bad   conduct or dishonorable from such service except where such action would   endanger  the public safety or the safety or health of persons cared for   by the state, in which event such persons shall be entitled to leave  of   absence  with  pay  on another day in lieu thereof. All such persons who   are compensated on a per diem, hourly, semi-monthly  or  monthly  basis,   with  or without maintenance, shall also be entitled to leave of absence   with pay under the provisions  of  this  section  and  no  deduction  in   vacation  allowance  or budgetary allowable number of working days shall   be made in lieu thereof. A refusal to give such leave of absence to  one   entitled thereto shall be neglect of duty.