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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 8 Sec. 11201

  • following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
  • Town: shall include city and wards or precincts therein; "selectboard members" and "board of civil authority" shall extend to and include the mayor and aldermen of cities; "trustees" shall extend to and include bailiffs of incorporated villages; and the laws applicable to the inhabitants and officers of towns shall be applicable to the inhabitants and similar officers of all municipal corporations. See

§ 11201. Business days

(a)(1) For purposes of this title, unless otherwise provided under other state or federal law applicable to a Vermont or state financial institution that is a depository institution, a business day is a calendar day other than the following:

(A) Saturday and Sunday;

(B) New Year’s Day, January 1;

(C) Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday, the third Monday in January;

(D) Presidents’ Day, the third Monday in February;

(E) Town Meeting Day, the first Tuesday in March;

(F) Memorial Day, the last Monday in May;

(G) Independence Day, July 4;

(H) Bennington Battle Day, August 16;

(I) Labor Day, the first Monday in September;

(J) Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the second Monday in October;

(K) Veterans’ Day, November 11;

(L) Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November;

(M) Christmas Day, December 25.

(2) A legal holiday that falls on a Saturday may be observed on the preceding Friday, and a legal holiday that falls on a Sunday may be observed on the following Monday.

(b) A Vermont financial institution may choose to remain open or to close any of its banking offices on any of the days enumerated in subsection (a) of this section. (Added 1999, No. 153 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2001; amended 2019, No. 14, § 11, eff. April 30, 2019; 2019, No. 18, § 3.)