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South Carolina Legal Holidays Laws<\/h1>\n
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South Carolina celebrates many of the same legal holidays as the rest of the United States<\/a>, such as New Year\u2019s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the 4th of July, and Thanksgiving. Interestingly, South Carolina law doesn\u2019t specify the when Thanksgiving Day is, as it does with all of the other holidays. Instead, South Carolina merely celebrates the National Thanksgiving Day when the federal government does, which has changed<\/a>. Between 1863 and 1939, Thanksgiving was on the last Thursday of November, but since 1941 it\u2019s officially been the fourth Thursday, partially motivated by a desire to ensure a longer holiday shopping season.<\/p>\n

The most controversial holiday<\/a> celebrated by South Carolina is Confederate Memorial Day. In 2012, State Representative Boyd Brown<\/a>, Democrat from Winnsboro, called for the end of taking Confederate Memorial Day off<\/a> as a legal holiday, but to continue to celebrate it. Former State Rep. Brown merely saw it as an inefficient holiday.
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A list of the legal holidays<\/a> in South Carolina and the statute where you can find them are available in the table below.<\/p>\n\n
Code Section<\/b><\/td>\nSouth Carolina Code Section 53-5-10: Legal Holidays Enumerated and Holiday Schedules of Public Colleges and Universities<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>
Holidays<\/b><\/td>\nSouth Carolina observes the following days as holidays with state government offices and public schools taking the day off:
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