La. Rev. Stat. § 1:55

g those hours and, because of the requirements of their job, do in fact work shall be entitled to compensatory time for those hours.

C. It shall be lawful to file and record suits, deeds, mortgages and liens, to issue and serve citations, to make sheriff's sales by virtue of any execution, and to take and to execute all other legal proceedings on Wednesday and Saturday holidays and half-holidays.

D. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 6:65 or any other law to the contrary, all banking institutions and savings and loan associations located within the parishes of Terrebonne, Lafourche, Iberia, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, St. Mary, and Iberville, and all banking institutions located within the parishes of Lafayette and St. Landry, shall be closed during any year on Saturdays, Sundays, New Year's Day, Mardi Gras, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas; provided, however, that when New Year's Day, Independence Day, or Christmas fall on a Sunday, said banking institutions and savings and loan associations shall be closed on the next day, and said financial institutions may, each at its option, remain open and exercise all of its regular functions and duties upon January eighth; January nineteenth; the third Monday in February, Washington's Birthday and Presidents' Day; Good Friday; the last Monday in May, National Memorial Day; June third; August thirtieth; the second Monday in October, Christopher Columbus Day; November first; and November eleventh, Veterans' Day; and further provided that when on any of said last named days any said financial institution does actually remain open it shall, as to transactions on such day, to exactly the same extent as if such day were not otherwise a legal holiday, not be subject to any of the provisions of R.S. 7:85 and 251, or any other laws of Louisiana, covering the matters of maturity of negotiable instruments and demands, notice, presentment, acceptance, or protest thereof on legal holidays and half-holidays, and all instruments payable to or at such bank upon such day shall become due on such day; and provided further that the option of remaining open shall not apply to Saturdays or Wednesdays which are holidays or half-holidays, or to Mardi Gras when the same has been declared a legal holiday; and provided further that nothing in any law of this state shall in any manner whatsoever affect the validity of, or render void or voidable, the payment, certification of acceptance of a check or other negotiable instrument, or any other transaction by a bank in Louisiana because done on any holiday or half-holiday or because done on any day upon which such financial institution if remaining open because of the option given it in this Subsection, if the payment, certification, acceptance, or other transaction could have been validly done on any other day, provided, however, that in the parishes of Beauregard, Sabine, Vernon, Evangeline, and DeSoto, the banking institutions may elect to make the whole of Saturdays holidays and close, in lieu of half-holidays on Wednesdays and half-holidays on Saturdays.

E.(1)(a)(i) Each clerk of a district court, parish court, and city court shall close his office on the following days: New Year's Day, January first; Washington's Birthday and Presidents' Day, the third Monday in February; Good Friday; Memorial Day, the last Monday in May; the Fourth of July; Labor Day, the first Monday in September; All Saints' Day, November first; Veterans' Day, November eleventh; Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November, and the next day, Friday; Christmas Eve Day; Christmas Day; and New Year's Eve Day, December thirty-first.

(ii) Whenever New Year's Day, the Fourth of July, or Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be a holiday. Whenever New Year's Day, the Fourth of July, or Christmas Day falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be a holiday.
, unless there is an election that requires the office to remain open.

(h) In addition, in the parish of Grant, the Friday of the Pecan Festival shall be a legal holiday for the purpose of authorizing the clerk of court of the Thirty-Fifth Judicial District Court in the parish of Grant to close offices in observance of that day, unless there is an election that requires the office to remain open.

(i) In addition, in the parish of Union, the Friday of the Watermelon Festival shall be a legal holiday for the purpose of authorizing the clerk of court of the Third Judicial District Court in the parish of Union to close offices in observance of that day, unless there are functions and duties related to an election that require the office to remain open.

(2) If an emergency situation develops which, in the judgment of the clerk of court, renders it hazardous or otherwise unsafe for employees of the office of the clerk to continue in the performance of their official duties or for the general public to conduct business with the clerk's office, the clerk, with prior approval from the clerk's chief judge or other person authorized to exercise his authority, may order the closing of his office for the duration of the hazardous or unsafe condition. No such closure shall be effective nor shall such period of closing be considered a legal holiday unless prior written approval or written confirmation from such chief judge or person acting on his behalf is received by the clerk of court. When the office is reopened, the clerk shall attach a statement setting forth the dates of closure, the hours of closure if applicable, the reasons for closure, and a statement that, pursuant to Paragraph (3) of this Subsection, these days or parts of days were legal holidays to every document, petition, or pleading filed in the office of the clerk on the first day or part of a day his office is open after being closed under the provisions of this Paragraph, whenever the petition or document relates to a cause of action, right of appeal, or other matter against which prescription could have run or time periods imposed by law could have expired.

(3) Only the enumerated holidays in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, days of closure under Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, Mardi Gras only in those parishes in which the governing authority of the parish declares a holiday under authority of Paragraph (A)(3) of this Section, and all Saturdays and Sundays shall be considered as legal holidays for the purposes of Code of Civil Procedure Article 5059.

(4) The Municipal Court of New Orleans and the Traffic Court of New Orleans shall have the same legal holidays as the Civil District Court for the parish of Orleans and the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans.

(5) Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the contrary, no court shall be required to be open if their respective clerk of court's office is closed pursuant to this Section.

F. Each institution of higher education in the state, through a representative appointed by it, shall designate a maximum of fourteen legal holidays per calendar year to be observed by all of its employees. If the institution does not elect to designate Veterans' Day as one of the fourteen legal holidays to be observed, an employee, who is a veteran as defined in R.S. 29:251.2, shall be allowed to attend activities or events related to Veterans' Day with compensation and for no more than four hours, when the designated day for observance by the state is on a regularly scheduled workday.
ts employees. If the institution does not elect to designate Veterans' Day as one of the fourteen legal holidays to be observed, an employee, who is a veteran as defined in R.S. 29:251.2, shall be allowed to attend activities or events related to Veterans' Day with compensation and for no more than four hours, when the designated day for observance by the state is on a regularly scheduled workday.

Amended by Acts 1950, No. 96, §1; Acts 1950, No. 98, §1; Acts 1952, No. 534, §§1, 2; Acts 1954, No. 593, §1; Acts 1956, No. 463, §1; Acts 1956, No. 549, §1; Acts 1958, No. 210, §1; Acts 1958, No. 270, §1; Acts 1964, No. 158; Acts 1964, No. 250; Acts 1965, No. 159, §1; Acts 1966, No. 45, §1; Acts 1966, No. 137, §1; Acts 1966, No. 152, §1; Acts 1968, No. 48, §§1, 2; Acts 1968, No. 178, §1; Acts 1968, No. 380, §1; Acts 1968, No. 404, §1; Acts 1968, No. 497, §1; Acts 1970, No. 202, §1; Acts 1970, No. 575, §1; Acts 1972, No. 640, §1; Acts 1973, No. 131, §1; Acts 1975, No. 38, §1; Acts 1976, No. 72, §1; Acts 1976, No. 98, §1, eff. July 9, 1976; Acts 1976, No. 111, §1; Acts 1976, No. 493, §1; Acts 1977, No. 505, §1; Acts 1977, No. 668, §1; Acts 1978, No. 69, §1; Acts 1978, No. 163, §1; Acts 1981, No. 171, §1; Acts 1982, No. 148, §1; Acts 1982, No. 255, §1; Acts 1982, No. 627, §1; Acts 1984, No. 79, §1; Acts 1984, No. 464, §1; Acts 1984, No. 643, §1; Acts 1985, No. 838, §1; Acts 1985, No. 1002, §1; Acts 1986, No. 2, §1; Acts 1986, No. 153, §1; Acts 1986, No. 296, §1; Acts 1986, No. 607, §1; Acts 1988, No. 346, §1; Acts 1989, No. 570, §1; Acts 1991, No. 139, §1; Acts 1991, No. 906, §1; Acts 1992, No. 333, §1; Acts 1992, No. 750, §1; Acts 1992, No. 772, §1; Acts 1993, No. 487, §1; Acts 1993, No. 495, §1; Acts 1993, No. 534, §1; Acts 1993, No. 698, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1021, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1307, §1; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 22, §1; Acts 1999, No. 257, §1; Acts 1999, No. 279, §1; Acts 1999, No. 733, §1; Acts 2003, No. 354, §1; Acts 2003, No. 409, §1; Acts 2004, No. 474, §1; Acts 2004, No. 740, §1; Acts 2005, No. 45, §1; Acts 2006, No. 734, §1; Acts 2008, No. 788, §1; Acts 2013, No. 220, §1, eff. June 11, 2013; Acts 2014, No. 206, §1; Acts 2014, No. 671, §1; Acts 2015, No. 40, §1; Acts 2016, No. 33, §1; Acts 2016, No. 34, §1, eff. May 10, 2016; Acts 2019, No. 316, §1; Acts 2020, No. 264, §1; Acts 2022, No. 452, §1; Acts 2025, No. 305, §1.