2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 168-A - Designation of Days of Commemoration.

§ 168-a. Designation   of   days   of   commemoration.  1.  A  day  of
  commemoration is a calendar day so  designated  by  this  section  or  a
  calendar  day  in  any  one  year so designated by a proclamation of the
  governor or resolution of the Senate and Assembly jointly adopted.
2.  A  day  of  commemoration  shall  not  constitute  a  holiday   or
  half-holiday  but  shall  be  a day set aside in recognition and special
  honor of a person, persons, group ideal or goal.
3. The following days shall be days of  commemoration  in  each  year:
  January   sixth,   to   be   known   as   "Haym  Salomon  Day",  January
  twenty-seventh, to be known as  "Holocaust  Remembrance  Day",  February
  fourth, to be known as "Rosa Parks Day", February fifteenth, to be known
  as   "Susan  B.  Anthony  Day",  February  sixteenth,  to  be  known  as
  "Lithuanian Independence Day", February twenty-eighth, to  be  known  as
  "Gulf  War  Veterans'  Day", March fourth, to be known as "Pulaski Day",
  March eighth, to be known as "International Women's Day",  March  tenth,
  to  be known as "Harriet Tubman Day", March twenty-ninth, to be known as
  "Vietnam Veterans' Day", April ninth, to be known  as  "POW  Recognition
  Day",  April  twenty-seventh,  to  be known as "Coretta Scott King Day",
  April twenty-eighth, to be known as "Workers' Memorial Day",  the  first
  Tuesday  in  May  to  be  known  as  "New  York  State Teacher Day", May
  seventeenth, to be known as "Thurgood Marshall Day", the first Sunday in
  June, to be known as "Children's Day",  June  second,  to  be  known  as
  "Italian Independence Day", June twelfth, to be known as "Women Veterans
  Recognition  Day",  June  nineteenth, to be known as "Juneteenth Freedom
  Day", June twenty-fifth, to be known as "Korean War Veterans' Day",  the
  second  Monday  in  July,  to be known as "Abolition Commemoration Day",
  August twenty-fourth, to  be  known  as  "Ukrainian  Independence  Day",
  August  twenty-sixth,  to  be known as "Women's Equality Day", September
  eleventh, to be known as "Battle of Plattsburgh  Day"  and  also  to  be
  known  as  "September 11th Remembrance Day", September thirteenth, to be
  known as "John Barry Day" and also to be known as "Uncle Sam Day in  the
  State  of  New  York",  September seventeenth, to be known as "Friedrich
  Wilhelm von Steuben Memorial Day", the third Friday in September  to  be
  known as "New York State POW/MIA Recognition Day" except if such date of
  commemoration  cannot  be  observed  due  to  a  religious holiday, such
  observances shall then be conducted on the second Friday  of  September,
  the  last  Saturday  in September, to be known as "War of 1812 Day", the
  fourth Saturday of September, known as "Native-American Day",  the  last
  Sunday  in  September,  to be known as "Gold Star Mothers' Day", October
  fifth, to be known as "Raoul Wallenberg Day", October  eleventh,  to  be
  known  as  "New  Netherland  Day  in  the  State  of  New York", October
  eighteenth,  to  be  known  as  "Disabilities  History   Day",   October
  twenty-seventh, to be known as "Theodore Roosevelt Day", November ninth,
  to  be  known  as  "Witness  for Tolerance Day", November twelfth, to be
  known as "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day", the third Tuesday in November  to
  be  known  as  "New  York State School-Related Professionals Recognition
  Day", November  thirtieth,  to  be  known  as  "Shirley  Chisholm  Day",
  December  third,  to  be  known  as  "International  Day of Persons with
  Disabilities", December seventh, to be  known  as  "Pearl  Harbor  Day",
  December  sixteenth,  to  be known as "Bastogne Day" and that day of the
  Asian lunar calendar designated as new year to be known  as  "Asian  New
  Year".