Editing Public holiday (section)

=== Civic holiday ===
A ''civic holiday'', also known as a ''civil holiday'' or ''work holiday'', is a day that is [[legally]] recognized and celebrated as a holiday in a particular [[sovereign state]] or [[jurisdiction]]al subdivision of such, e.g., a state or a [[province]].  It is usually a day that the [[legislature]], [[parliament]], [[congress]] or [[Monarch|sovereign]] has declared by [[statute]], [[edict]] or [[decree]] as a non-working day when the official arms of [[government]] such as the [[court|court system]] are closed.   In [[federation|federal states]] there may also be different holidays for the constituent states or provinces, as in the United States, where holidays that were established by the federal government are called ''federal holidays''.  Such days may or may not be counted in calculating the [[statute of limitation]]s in legal actions and are usually days when [[child custody|non-custodial]] [[parents]] are given alternating visitation or [[Contact (law)|access]] to their children from a prior [[marriage]] or relationship according to a parenting schedule.

The term may also be used to distinguish between days that may be celebrated as secular holidays rather than ''[[religious holiday]]s'' such as the celebration of New Year's Day on January 1 ([[Gregorian calendar]]) and January 14 ([[Julian Calendar]]) in certain [[eastern Orthodox]] Christian countries such as [[Russia]].