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.

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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