(A) Any on-duty police officer who is called to work at any time other than his regular hours of employment for the purpose of testifying in criminal or civil proceedings in Allen County, Ohio to which he is not a party, due to his position as a police officer of the City, shall, when such court duty does not extend into or become an extension of his regular hours of employment, be paid in accordance with the following:
The officer shall receive a minimum of four hours pay at his regular hourly rate or one and one-half times his regular hourly rate for the time worked, whichever is greater, providing the time worked or paid does not abut the employee's workday and applies only once in any four hour period.
(B) For purposes of this section, an on-duty officer is one who works any hours between 11:00 p. m. of one day and 11:00 p. m. of the following day. An off- duty officer is one who does not work within any such periods.
(C) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any on-duty officer called to work more than once in any three-hour period or to any off-duty officer called to work more than once in any four-hour period.
(Ord. 83-83. Passed 5-23-83.)