All regular full-time employees of the City shall be granted one and one-quarter days of sick leave for each completed month of service with the City upon the following terms and conditions:
(a) A completed month of service shall consist of twenty-two working days.
(b) Additional sick leave shall not be credited for overtime service.
(c) No payment of salaries or wages shall be made to an employee for any period of absence on sick leave until the head of the department to which such employee is assigned has certified to the Finance Director that such absence was in fact due to illness or disability.
(d) Except on a regularly scheduled working day before or after a holiday, and subject to the provisions of subsection (c) hereof, two consecutive days of sick leave may be taken without certification of inability to work by a duly licensed physician.
(e) In excess of two days consecutive sick leave will be granted only upon the certificate of a duly licensed physician that the employee was under medical care and unable to work and indicating the approximate date of return to duty.
(f) In all instances, the immediate superior of the employee or department head concerned shall be notified of illness or inability to work not later than 10:00 a.m. on the first day of absence.
(Ord. 81-1970. Passed 5-25-70.)
(g) Sick leave shall accumulate at the rate of not to exceed fifteen days per calendar year for a total without limit, commencing August 9, 1974.
(Ord. 237-1975. Passed 11-3-75.)
(h) An employee shall not be considered to be on sick leave on Saturday, Sunday or holidays unless regularly assigned to duty on such days.
(Ord. 81-1970. Passed 5-25-70.)
(i) Sick leave will be permitted to all full-time employees when there is illness in the immediate family.
(Ord. 331-1973. Passed 11-12-73.)
(j) An employee may not accrue more than two hundred twenty days of unused sick leave.
(k) An employee who has accrued more than two hundred twenty days of unused sick leave under previous provisions with respect to sick leave accrual shall not be permitted to accrue any additional sick leave thereafter until his accrued and unused sick leave balance is reduced below 220 days. Once any such employee has reduced his accrued and unused sick leave balance below 220 days then he may not, thereafter, accrue more than 220 days.
(Ord. 169-1984. Passed 12-26-84.)