(a) Every member of the Fire Department or Police Department shall be entitled to sick leave with full pay as herein provided if the member is compelled to be absent from the member’s work on account of any illness or injury other than that caused by or arising from the member’s own moral turpitude, or sustained in the course of or arising out of and proximately caused by the member’s duties as a city employee. Such sick leave shall be allowed as follows:
Commencing December 27, 1970, during the calendar in which the member is appointed and during such subsequent calendar year, the member shall be allowed not to exceed 12 working days’ leave at full pay, five working days at 75% of full pay, and five working days at 50% of full pay, plus the days of sick leave accrued and accumulated in the manner set forth hereinbelow. As used in this section and in Section 4.178 of this Code, the term “calendar year” shall mean the period commencing on the first day of the payroll period during which January 1st occurs and ending on the day immediately preceding the first day of the payroll period during which the next succeeding January 1st occurs.
The allowance of sick leave in this section provided for shall accrue and accumulate in the manner specified herein while the member is absent on military leave.
(b) Any unused balance of sick leave at full pay at the end of any calendar year shall be carried over and accumulated from one calendar year to the next to a maximum of 100 working days, provided, however, that any sick leave at full pay remaining unused at the end of any calendar year, which if added to a member’s accumulated sick leave at full pay, will exceed 100 working days, shall, as soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year be compensated for by cash payment of 50% of the salary rate current at the date of payment.
If a member of the Fire Department retires from the service of the City or, if a member of the Fire Department who is eligible to retire on or after July 1, 1996 dies prior to retirement, any balance of accumulated sick leave at full pay remaining unused at the time of retirement or death shall be compensated to the member or, in the event of the death of the member, to the member’s legal beneficiaries, by cash payment of 50% of the member’s salary rate on the date of retirement or death. The City Council may, by resolution, authorize cash payment to the legal beneficiaries of any member of the Fire Department, who on or after January 1, 1990, is killed during the performance of job- related duties, for the balance of the member’s accumulated full-pay sick leave at 100% of the member’s salary rate on the date of the member’s death. In no instance shall a member or the member’s beneficiaries be compensated more than once for accumulated sick leave upon retirement and/or death of the member.
If a member of the Police Department becomes separated from the service of the member’s department by reasons of retirement or death, any balance of accumulated sick leave at full pay remaining unused at the time of separation shall be compensated to the member or in the event of separation due to the death of the member, to the member’s estate, by cash payment of 50% of the member’s salary rate current at such date of separation. In no instance will a member or the member’s estate be compensated more than once for accumulated full pay sick leave upon retirement or upon the death of the member. The City Council may, by resolution, authorize cash payment to the legal beneficiaries of a member of the Police Department who, on or after January 1, 1990, suffered or suffers a duty-related death, for the balance of the member’s accumulated full-pay sick leave at 100% of the member’s salary rate on the date of the member’s death. In no instance shall a member or a member’s beneficiaries be compensated more than once for accumulated sick leave upon retirement, death, or death in the performance of duties of the member.
If a member becomes separated from the service of either the Fire Department or the Police Department by reason of resignation and is thereafter employed by either department within seven days after the effective date of said resignation, the unused balance of all sick leave, accrued and accumulated in the department from which the member resigned, as of the effective date of such resignation, shall be restored.
If a member of the Fire Department or Police Department was, within seven days prior to becoming a member, an employee of any department of the City, including an employee member of the Fire Department or Police Department, the unused balance of all sick leave accrued and accumulated in the department from which the member resigned, as of the effective date of such resignation, shall be restored.
(c) Any unused balance of sick leave at 75% of full pay at the end of any calendar year and any unused balance of sick leave at 50% of full pay at the end of any calendar year shall be carried over and accumulated from one calendar year to the next to a maximum of 100 working days at 75% pay and 100 working days at 50% pay. All accrued sick leave at partial pay in excess of such maximum amounts shall be deemed waived and lost.
(d) In all cases where such member is compelled to be absent from duty on account of such illness or injury, the member shall report the same as soon as practicable to the member’s appointing authority, and to the Medical Services Division of the Personnel Department. The appointing authority of a member receiving any benefits under this section may, in the appointing authority’s discretion and at such time as the appointing authority deems necessary, require such member to be examined by the Medical Services Division of the Personnel Department, which shall report its findings to said appointing authority.
(e) Upon approval of the appointing authority, any employee may be allowed sick leave with full pay not to exceed an aggregate of eight hours in any one calendar year, but not less than one hour at any one time, which shall be included in the allowance of sick leave at full pay under this section for the purpose of securing preventative medical, dental, optical or other like treatment or examination.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 89,935.
Amended by: Ord. No. 137,490; Ord. No. 138,460, Eff. 4-7-69; Ord. No. 139,809, Eff. 12-23-69; Subsecs. (a) – (e), repeals (f), Ord. No. 140,780, Eff. 7-31-70; Subsec. (b), Ord. No. 143,444, Eff. 6-20-72; Subsec. (b), Ord. No. 145,773, Eff. 4-10-74; Subsec. (b), Ord. No. 146,400, Eff. 7-31-74; Subsec. (b), sentences at end of second and third paras., Ord. No. 170,794, Eff. 12-19-95; Subsec. (b), second and third para., Ord. No. 170,967, Eff. 3-27-96; Subsec. (b), Para. 2, Ord. No. 171,527, Eff. 2-26-97.