§ 323. Designation of Legal Holiday
TITLE 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS § 323. Designation of Legal Holiday. The fourth day of November of each year is hereby declared a legal holiday in the Commonwealth, to be known as Citizenship Day. Source: PL 5-21, § 2. Commission Comment: PL 5-21 took effect November 3, 1986. According to PL 5-21, § 1: Section 1. Findings. The Legislature finds that November 4 of 1986 will be an historic occasion that should be commemorated annually as [a] holiday. On that day, nearly forty years of aspiration by the people of the Northern Mariana Islands to join the American political family as a self- governing Commonwealth, become citizens or nationals of the United States, and end 400 years of foreign domination will finally be realized. This is an event that has been long-awaited and [is] cause for Commonwealth-wide celebration.
Source: CNMI Law Revision Commission