What Is a Business Day?

A Message from Jeff Davis – OREF Forms Counsel

OREF Sale Agreements and ORS 696 define business days as days other than Saturday, Sunday, Federal legal holidays, and Oregon legal holidays. If a holiday falls on a Sunday the following Monday is observed as the legal holiday. If it falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is the observed legal holiday.

Please note, this list can change at any moment due to ORS 187.020, Additional legal holidays, which states that in addition to those specified in ORS 187.010, the following days are legal holidays in this state:

(1) Every day appointed by the Governor as a holiday.

(2) Every day appointed by the President of the United States as a day of mourning, rejoicing or other special observance only when the Governor also appoints that day as a holiday.

2026 Non-Business Days

• Thursday, January 1  – New Year’s Day
• Monday, January  19 – Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday
• Monday, February  16 – Presidents Day
• Monday, May  25 – Memorial Day
• Friday, June 19 – Juneteenth
• Friday, July 3 – Independence Day (observed; July 4 falls on a Saturday)
• Monday, September 7 – Labor Day
• Monday, October 12 – Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples’ Day
• Wednesday, November 11 – Veterans Day
• Thursday, November 26 – Thanksgiving Day
• Friday, December 25 – Christmas Day

Reminder: If a holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is the observed holiday. If a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is the observed holiday.

2027 Non-Business Days

• Friday, January 1 – New Year’s Day
• Monday, January 18 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Monday, February 15 – Presidents Day
• Monday, May 31 – Memorial Day
• Friday, June 18 – Juneteenth (observed; June 19 falls on a Saturday)
• Monday, July 5 – Independence Day (observed; July 4 falls on a Sunday)
• Monday, September 6 – Labor Day
• Monday, October 11 – Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples’ Day
• Thursday, November 11 – Veterans Day
• Thursday, November 25 – Thanksgiving Day
• Friday, December 24 – Christmas Day (observed; December 25 falls on a Saturday)