![[photo, Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/36loc/bcity/images/1198-1-3231.jpg)
Maryland's legal holidays include each statewide general election day, and each other day that the President of the United States or the Governor designates for general cessation of business. If a holiday falls on a Sunday, it is observed the following Monday (Chapter 422, Acts of 1994; Code General Provisions Article, sec. 1-111).
Although holiday generally means "a day marked by a general suspension of work in commemoration of an event", in Maryland, this is not always the case.
Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2008. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
2017 |
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| January 2 (Monday) | New Year's Day* (observed) |
| January 16 (Monday) | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday* (observed) |
| February 13 (Monday) | Lincoln's Birthday* (observed) |
| February 20 (third Monday) | Presidents' Day* (observed) |
| March 25 (Saturday) | Maryland Day |
| April 14 (Friday) | Good Friday |
| May 29 (Monday) | Memorial Day |
| July 4 (Tuesday) | Independence Day |
| September 4 (first Monday) | Labor Day |
| September 12 (Tuesday) | Defenders' Day |
| October 9 (Monday) | Columbus Day* (observed) |
| November 10 (Friday) | Veterans' Day* (observed) |
| November 23 (fourth Thursday) | Thanksgiving Day |
| November 24 (Friday after Thanksgiving) | American Indian Heritage Day |
| December 25 (Monday) | Christmas Day* (observed) |
2016 |
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| January 2 (Monday) | New Year's Day |
| January 16 (Monday) | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday* (observed) |
| February 12 (Friday) | Lincoln's Birthday |
| February 15 (third Monday) | Washington's Birthday* (Presidents' Day) (observed) |
| March 25 (Friday) | Maryland Day |
| March 25 (Friday) | Good Friday |
| May 30 (Monday) | Memorial Day |
| July 4 (Monday) | Independence Day |
| September 5 (first Monday) | Labor Day |
| September 12 (Monday) | Defenders' Day |
| October 10 (Monday) | Columbus Day* (observed) |
| November 11 (Friday) | Veterans' Day |
| November 24 (fourth Thursday) | Thanksgiving Day |
| November 25 (Friday after Thanksgiving) | American Indian Heritage Day |
| December 26 (Monday) | Christmas Day (observed) |
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