All officers and employees shall be given credit of one and one-fourth working days of sick leave with pay for each full calendar month employment. Sick leave shall be taken only when approved by the Mayor or such other officer as he or she may designate. Sick leave, up to the number of days accrued, shall be approved for all officers and employees whose absence from duty is due to illness, bodily injury, exposure to contagious disease or death in the immediate family of the officer or employee. However, the Mayor may, in his or her discretion, require doctor’s certificates or other satisfactory evidence that absences are properly chargeable as sick leave. The maximum credit for accrued sick leave under the provisions of this section shall be 18 working days. However any officer or employee who misses work on sick leave on either a Friday or Monday or on the day next preceding or next succeeding a holiday or vacation leave or emergency leave shall be required to present unto the Mayor or his or her designate a written physician’s certification.
(Prior Code, § 1-703)