(a) Each full-time employee, which for the purposes of this section shall be defined as any employee whose regularly scheduled service consists of thirty-two hours or more, who has completed eighty hours of service shall be entitled, for each completed eighty hours of service, to sick leave of four and six-tenths (4.6) hours with pay. Employees may use sick leave, upon approval of the department head, for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees, or due to illness, injury, or death in the employee's immediate family. In the case of death in the employee's immediate family, sick leave granted for this reason shall not exceed three days. The term "immediate family" as used in this section shall include the following: mother, father, brother, sister, child or stepchild, spouse, grandparent, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister- in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent-in-law, legal guardian or other person who stands in the place of parent (in loco parentis) of the employee or employee's spouse. When sick leave is used, it shall be deducted from the employee's credit on the basis of one hour for every one hour of absence from previously scheduled work.
(Ord. 3-79. Passed 1-15-79.)
(b) Each employee, at the time of retirement from active service with the City and with ten or more years of service with the City, may elect to be paid in cash for one-fourth of the value of his accrued but unused sick leave credit. Such payment shall be based on the employee's rate of pay at the time of retirement. Payment for sick leave on this basis shall be considered to eliminate all sick leave credit accrued by the employee at that time. Such payment shall be made only once to any employee. The maximum payment which may be made under this paragraph shall be for one-fourth of 344 days. Due to the varying work schedules of employees of the City a "day", within the meaning of this paragraph, shall consist of the number of hours as follows: (Ord. 38-01. Passed 4-3-01.)
(1) 6.4 hours for a regular work week of 32 hours.
(2) 8.0 hours for a regular work week of 40 hours.
(3) 10.6 hours for an average regular work week of 53 hours, as in the case of members of the Fire Department.
(4) In the case of any other regular work week, in excess of 32 hours, the number of hours in a "day", for the purposes of this provision, shall be determined by dividing the number of hours of the regular work week by five, with the result thereof being the number of hours in a day for that work schedule.
(c) In the event of the death of an active employee of the City, having at the time of death, ten or more years of service with the City, the estate of such employee shall be entitled to be paid in cash for one-fourth of the value of his accrued but unused sick leave credit, subject to the same limitations and provisions as set forth above.
(d) Overtime service shall not be considered in determining an employee's regular work week.
(e) Previously accumulated sick leave of an employee who has been separated from the public service shall be placed to his credit upon his re-employment in the public service, provided that such re-employment takes place within ten years of the date on which the employee was last terminated from public service, and provided further that the employee was in good standing at the time of such termination. An employee who transfers from one public agency to the City shall be credited with the unused balance of his sick leave accumulated in the public agency from which the employee transfers. The department head shall require an employee to furnish a satisfactory written, signed statement to justify the use of sick leave, setting forth the reason for the use thereof. If medical attention is required, the department head and/or Mayor may require a certificate stating the nature of the illness from a licensed physician to justify the use of sick leave. Falsification of either a written, signed statement or a physician's certificate shall be grounds for disciplinary action including dismissal. This section shall be uniformly administered to all employees of the City.
(f) In order to receive compensation while absent on sick leave, each employee shall promptly take steps, in the manner as may be specified by the department head, to notify his immediate superior of his illness and, thereafter, shall make written application for such compensation. When such absence is for more than two days, the employee concerned, in order to receive compensation, must file with his request for sick leave compensation a certificate from a registered physician stating that such employee was unable during the whole of such absence to perform his duties, or submit other satisfactory proof of such illness.
(Ord. 3-79. Passed 1-16-79.)
(g) ( EDITOR'S NOTE: This subsection was repealed by Ordinance 27-86, passed May 20, 1986. )