Elected Offices

Legal Holidays
The following are declared legal holidays by the Amite County Board of Supervisors, viz:

The first day of January (New Year's Day)
The third Monday of January (Robert E. Lee's birthday and Martin Luther King's birthday)
The first Friday of April (Good Friday)
The last Monday of April (Confederate Memorial Day)
The last Monday of May (Memorial Day)
The fourth day of July (Independence Day)
The first Monday of September (Labor Day)
The eleventh day of November (Veteran's Day)
The day fixed by proclamation by the Governor of Mississippi as a day of thanksgiving which shall be fixed to correspond to the date proclaimed by the President of the United States (Thanksgiving Day)
The twenty-fifth day of December (Christmas Day)
and any other special occasions as declared by the Board of Supervisors to be holidays including, if allowed, the day following Thanksgiving, and also Christmas Eve.