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service, each regular Employee EMPLOYEE will receive one additional day of vacation each year in excess of sixteen (16) years of service, to a maximum of 25 days per year. For the purpose of accumulating additional vacation, an Employee EMPLOYEE using paid holidays, earned vacation leave or sick leave is considered to be working. 14.2 An Employee's EMPLOYEE'S accrued or "banked" vacation leave must be equal to or less than two times the yearly accrual by December 31" of each year; any accruals exceeding this amount will be forfeited. 14.3 Vacation leave may be used as earned subject to approval by the department head at the time at which it may be taken. 14.4 Any Efi+p-1-eyee—EMPLOYEE leaving the municipal service in good standing after giving proper notice of such termination of employment shall be compensated for vacation leave accrued and unused to the date of separation. ARTICLE 15: SICK LEAVE 15.1 Every probationary and regular Employee EMPLOYEE is entitled to sick leave with pay at the rate of 1 day for each calendar month of full-time service or major fraction thereof. Sick leave may be accumulated to a maximum of 960 hours and may be granted in units of not less than 2 hours. Unused sick leave in excess of 960 hours at the end of a calendar year (January 1") shall be converted to vacation at a rate of one hour vacation for each two hours of sick leave in excess of 960 hours. 15.2 Sick leave may be granted by the Employee's EMPLOYEE'S Department Head when the Employee EMPLOYEE is unable to perform work duties due to illness, disability, the necessity for medical, dental or chiropractic care, childbirth or exposure to contagious disease where such exposure may endanger the health of others with whom the Employee EMPLOYEE could come in contact in the course of performing work duties. Sick leave may also be authorized when the Employee's EMPLOYEE'S presence is necessary, for actual illness, injury, legal quarantine or medical treatment in the Employee's EMPLOYEE'S immediate family. Immediate family, for the purposes if this Article, shall be defines as spouse, parent, step parent, children, step children, brother, sister, grandparents, grandchildren or a like member of the EMPLOYEE'S -E--tiip-leyeels-spouse's family. The employee EMPLOYEE shall, when taking sick leave, make sure that the department duty schedule is adjusted as to maintain the department's minimal coverage requirements during the time the Employee EMPLOYEE is on sick leave. 15.3 EmployeesEMPLOYEES are allowed funeral leave up to 24 hours twice annually per occurrence (a maximum of 48 hours annually) for a death in the immediate family as defined under Article 15.2. That time is not chargeable against any accrued vacation, 12