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time service. Bach regular Employee with at least six (6), but less than twelve (12), <br />consecutive years of full-time service shall earn vacation leave at the rate of 1,25 working <br />days for each calendar month of full-time service. Each regular Employee with at least <br />twelve (12), but less than seventeen (17), years of conseoutive full-time service shall earn <br />vacation leave at the rate of 1.666 working days for each calendar month of full-time <br />service. After sixteen years of service, each regular Employee will receive one additional <br />day of vacation each year in excess of sixteen (16) years of service, to a maximum of 25 <br />days per year, <br />14,2 An Employee's accrued or "banked" vacation leave must be equal to or less than two times <br />the yearly accrual by December 31st of each year; any accruals exceeding this amount will <br />be forefeitedr <br />14.3 Vacation leave may be used as earned subject to approval by the department head at the <br />. time at which it may be taken. <br />14.4 Any Employee leaving the municipal service in good standing after giving a proper <br />notice of at least fourteen days advance notice of such termination of employment, shall <br />be compensated for vacation leave accrued and unused to the date of separation. <br />14.5 For the purpose of accumulating additional vacation leave, an Employee using earned <br />vacation leave, sick leave or paid holidays is considered to be working. <br />ARTICLE FIFTEEN (15) SICK LEAVE <br />15.1 Every probationary and regular Employee is entitled to sick leave with pay at the rate of 1 <br />day for each calendar month of full-time service or major fraction thereof. Sick leave may <br />be accumulated to a maximum. of 960 hours and may be granted in units of not less than 2 <br />hours. Unused sick leave in excess of 960 hours at the end of a calendar year (January lst) <br />shall be converted to vacation at a rate of one hour vacation for each two hours of sick <br />leave in excess of 960 hours. <br />15.2 Sick leave may be granted by the Employee's Department Head when the Employee has <br />communicated the request to a Police Supervisor, and is unable to perform work duties due <br />to illness, disability, the necessity for medical, dental or chiropractic care, childbirth or <br />exposure to contagious disease where such exposure may endanger the health of others <br />with whom the Employee could come in contact in the course of p erfotning work duties <br />Sick leave may also be authorized when the Employee's presence is necessary, for actual <br />illness, injury, legal quarantine, or medical treatment in the Employee's immediate family. <br />Immediate family, for the purposes of this Article, shall be defined as spouse, parent, step- <br />parent, children, step -children, ,brother, sister, grandparents, grandchildren or a like <br />member of Employee's spouse's family. <br />15.3 Employees are allowed funeral leave up to 24 .hours twice annually per occurrence (a <br />maximum of 48 hours annually) for a death in the immediate family as defined under <br />Article 152. 2, That times is not chargeable against any accrued vacation, sick or <br />'compensatory time. Hours must be taken within 5 (five) calendar days from start to finish <br />11 <br />