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Title 4 : Municipal Personnel
Chapter 2 : Work, Vacation And Sick Leave And Holiday Regulations

4-213 : Sick leave.

  1. All full-time employees of the city shall be allowed to accumulate sick leave with pay at the rate of one (1) working day for each full calendar month of service completed up to an unused maximum of thirty (30) working days. Sick leave shall be considered a benefit and privilege and not a right for the employee to use at his or her discretion. Employees shall, therefore, utilize their accumulated sick leave allowance for absences due to personal illness or physical incapacity, personal illness or physical incapacity within the immediate family of the employee (as defined in paragraph (3) below), enforced quarantine of the employee in accordance with community health regulations, disability resulting from pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, or so as to keep an appointment with a licensed medical doctor, dentist or other recognized health care practitioner.
  2. The board of commissioners may, in its discretion, prescribe regulations requiring that a health care practitioner's certificate or other satisfactory evidence be filed with the city supporting the absence before it may be properly chargeable as sick leave.
  3. For sick leave purposes the term "working day" as it applies in this section shall be computed on an eight (8) hour basis. The term "immediate family" shall be defined as spouse, children, parents, brothers and sisters, and grandparents, both of the employee and spouse of the employee.
  4. Sick leave compensation shall be figured at the employee's straight time pay rate in effect at the date it is used by the employee.
  5. The date of service to be used in determining sick leave time accrual rate is the beginning date of the employee's current period of continuous service or the date on which the employee was initially employed or appointed, whichever is more recent.
  6. Sick leave shall begin to accrue on the first day of the month next following the first full calendar month of employment.
  7. Temporary, casual or part-time employees are not eligible for accrual of sick leave.
  8. For sick leave purposes any reinstated employee shall be considered as a new employee regardless of the reason for his or her separation.
  9. Any employee who abuses these sick leave provisions or who deliberately makes or causes to be made any false or misleading statement or claim concerning the same, shall be subject to the loss of any such benefits, dismissal from his or her employment with the city or other disciplinary action.
  10. Any employee of the city who is injured when engaging in his employment for the city may be carried on sick leave for any accumulated sick leave that he or she has to his or her credit, but in no case shall any employee be allowed to receive sick leave pay while drawing any workers compensation or other disability payments resulting from any benefit provided by the city. (Ord. #02-01-04, Jan. 2002)