Holidays and Celebrations Act (2014)

From MicroCommons
Jump to navigation Jump to search

The following is the full text of the Holidays and Celebrations Act of the Free State of Renasia.

ARTICLE I

The Guntanu’tl:

  1. Recognizing that the holidays and celebrations of a nation help to define and shape its culture, and realizing that holidays and celebrations help to bring us together as a nation.
  2. Recognizing that a formal system of national holidays and recognized celebrations at the Federal level is conducive to the process of the development of culture.
  3. Recognizing the need for these celebrations to reflect the culture values currently in Renasia.
  4. Finally, recognizing that a list of celebrations and holidays should be editable to allow for the changes in cultural norms which are sure to occur in any developing community

Establishes the following provisions for Holidays and Celebrations.

ARTICLE 2

The following definitions hold:

  1. A Holiday, or State Holiday, is fixed date festivity for which all citizens are considered to be released from their work duties in order to celebrate, barring emergency situations which might arise over the course of the festive period.
  2. A celebration is a variable date festivity for which citizens are not considered released from their working obligations, being seen as of lesser importance than full holidays.

ARTICLE 3

  1. The amendment of the following list requires a majority vote of the Guntanu’tl or equivalent.
  2. Renasian New Year’s Day shall be celebrated as a State Holiday on the 17th of September each year, declaring the end to one economic and calendric year, and the beginning of another.
  3. The Two Day Feast, commemorating the works of Einstein and Darwin, shall be celebrated as a State Holiday on the 24th and 25th of November.
  4. St. Sagan’s Day, the celebration of Renasia’s secular patron saint, shall occur on the 20th of December.
  5. The Winter Solstice Observation shall be a celebration undertaken at the Winter Solstice.
  6. The Quadrantid Observation shall be a celebration undertaken when the Quadrantid meteor shower reaches its peak each year, in early January.
  7. The 19th and the 20th of April shall see the celebration of first Bicycle day, the celebration of Albert Hofmann’s first intentional use of LSD, followed by 4/20, the widely recognized holiday celebrating cannabis.
  8. The Summer Solstice Observation shall be a celebration undertaken at the Summer Solstice.
  9. First Landing Day shall be celebrated on the 20th of July, commemorating the first landing of man on the moon.
  10. The Perseid Observation shall be a celebration undertaken during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower in the middle of August.
Retrieved from "https://commons.micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Holidays_and_Celebrations_Act_(2014)&oldid=3407"