Bill Text: AZ HB2212 | 2013 | Fifty-first Legislature 1st Regular | Chaptered
Bill Title: Legal holidays; counties; courts
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-04-29 - Governor Signed [HB2212 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2013-HB2212-Chaptered.html
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House Engrossed |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-first Legislature First Regular Session 2013
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CHAPTER 131
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HOUSE BILL 2212 |
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AN ACT
amending sections 11‑413 and 12‑127, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to legal holidays.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 11-413, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
11-413. County offices; business periods
A. Every county officer, except the sheriff, shall keep the officer's office open for not less than at least forty hours each week or not less than at least thirty‑two hours each week if the week contains a day that is a legal holiday. Notwithstanding section 1‑301, for the purposes of opening county offices for the transaction of business, the board of supervisors of any county by resolution may designate the fourth Friday after the fourth Thursday in November as a legal holiday in place of the second Monday in October. If the board of supervisors makes such a designation, every county officer, except the sheriff, shall keep the officer's office open for not less than at least twenty‑four hours for that November week.
B. The criminal division of the sheriff's office shall be open at all times.
Sec. 2. Section 12-127, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
12-127. Days for transaction of business; exceptions
A. The superior court shall at all times be open for transaction of business except on nonjudicial days. No The superior court shall not transact business shall be transacted on a legal holiday except:
1. To give, on its request, instructions to a jury deliberating on its verdict.
2. To receive a verdict or discharge a jury.
3. For the exercise of the powers of a magistrate in a criminal action or in a proceeding of a criminal nature.
B. Writs of injunction, attachment, garnishment, replevin and prohibition may be issued and served on any day.
C. With the approval of the presiding judge of the county, business shall be transacted in the division of the superior court of that county on the second Monday in October if the board of supervisors designates the fourth Friday after the fourth Thursday in November a legal holiday in place of the second Monday in October.
D. A division of the superior court shall not be open for the transaction of business on the fourth Friday after the fourth Thursday in November if the division of the superior court of that county is open for the transaction of business on the second Monday in October pursuant to subsection C of this section.
APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 29, 2013.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 30, 2013.
