(A) An employee adopting a child under the age of ten will be granted reasonable personal leave that does not exceed six weeks.
(B) All other paid leave and benefits provided to employees who are birth parents following the birth of a child within the maternity and parental leave policy in § 36.175 will also be available to employees adopting a child under the age of ten.
(C) This leave is not available to an adoption by fictive kin; stepparent; stepsibling; blood relative, including a relative of a half-blood; first cousin; aunt; uncle; nephew; niece and a person of a preceding generation as denoted by prefixes of grand, great, great-great or foster parent who adopts a foster child who is already in his or her care.