Bill Text: AZ SB1141 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public offices; holidays; technical correction

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-23 - Senate read second time [SB1141 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2024-SB1141-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: public offices; holidays; technical correction

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

SB 1141

 

Introduced by

Senator Gonzales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending section 1-302, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to holidays.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 1-302, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE1-302. Closing of offices and courts; transaction of certain judicial business

A. Public offices shall not be open, and no court of justice shall be open or any judicial business transacted on a legal holiday, except for the following purposes:

1. To give upon on its request, instructions to a jury deliberating on its the jury's 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. Injunctions, attachments, process for claim and delivery and writs of prohibition may be issued and served on any day. END_STATUTE