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PREFACE
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Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 5 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Chapter 14 AUTHORITIES
Chapter 23 BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, COMMITTEES AND COUNCILS
Chapter 36 FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES
Chapter 51 INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
Chapter 62 PENSIONS
Chapter 70 PERSONNEL
Chapter 77 POLICE DEPARTMENT
Chapter 91 SALARIES AND COMPENSATION
Chapter 120 ALARM SYSTEMS
Chapter 127 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Chapter 141 ANIMALS
Chapter 166 CABLE TELEVISION
Chapter 173 COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY CODE
Chapter 180 CONSTRUCTION CODES
Chapter 185 CONVERSION THERAPY
Chapter 188 CURFEW
Chapter 201 ELECTRIC SERVICE
Chapter 212 FEES
Chapter 219 FIREARMS
Chapter 225 FIREWORKS
Chapter 231 FIRE INSURANCE PROCEEDS
Chapter 237 FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
Chapter 251 FOOD CODE
Chapter 272 GRAFFITI
Chapter 288 HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 295 HISTORICAL AND CONSERVATION DISTRICTS
Chapter 302 HOUSE NUMBERING
Chapter 308 HOUSING
Chapter 317 INVASIVE PLANTS AND NOXIOUS WEEDS
Chapter 325 LAW ENFORCEMENT
Chapter 328 LEAD POISONING PREVENTION
Chapter 332 LIBRARY
Chapter 339 LICENSES AND PERMITS
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Chapter 353 LOITERING AND PANHANDLING
Chapter 364 MASSAGE THERAPISTS
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Chapter 387 NOISE
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Chapter 403 PAWNBROKERS
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Chapter 424 POLES
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Chapter 433 PUBLIC ART
Chapter 438 RAIN BARRELS
Chapter 442 RECORDS, PUBLIC ACCESS
Chapter 453 SALES
Chapter 460 SCRAP METAL DEALERS
Chapter 467 SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
Chapter 473 SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES
Chapter 479 SIDEWALK CAFES
Chapter 485 SIGNS
Chapter 496 SOLID WASTE
Chapter 502 STORAGE FACILITIES
Chapter 505 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
Chapter 508 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Chapter 515 SUBDIVISION AND LAND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 521 SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 536 TAMPERING WITH PUBLIC PROPERTY
Chapter 540 TATTOO AND PIERCING ESTABLISHMENTS
Chapter 543 TAX ABATEMENTS
Chapter 546 TAX AMNESTY PROGRAM
Chapter 549 TAXATION
Chapter 555 TREES
Chapter 564 VEHICLE NUISANCES, STORAGE OF
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Chapter 576 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Chapter 583 VENDING MACHINES
Chapter 600 ZONING
Chapter A610 ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY
Chapter A611 BOND ISSUES AND LOANS
Chapter A612 FRANCHISE AND SERVICES
Chapter A613 GOVERNMENTAL AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Chapter A614 PLAN APPROVAL
Chapter A615 PUBLIC PROPERTY
Chapter A616 SEWERS
Chapter A617 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Chapter A618 WATER
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Chapter DT DERIVATION TABLE
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§ 70-504. Sick leave.
[Amended 6-25-2001 by Ord. No. 21-2001]
   A.   Full-time employees shall be allowed 12 sick leave days per year, which shall be accumulated at the rate of one day per working month. However, no sick leave shall be accumulated unless an employee works at least half the days during the pay period when an employee is on sick leave. 12
   B.   Employees shall accrue unused sick leave from year to year with a maximum accumulation of 45 days. However, employees who have previously accumulated an amount of sick leave in excess of 45 days shall retain their current accumulated total. Any employee who has accumulated sick leave in excess of the forty-five-day maximum shall be red-lined at his/ her level of accumulation. No employee who has accumulated an excess of 45 days of sick leave shall be allowed to accumulate any other sick leave until and unless such person goes below the forty-five day maximum. Said person shall only be able to accumulate sick leave once they have initially gone below the forty-five-day limit.
   C.   At the end of each calendar year, an employee shall become entitled to compensatory time off or pay at his regular daily rate of base pay in an amount equal to one day for each calendar quarter in which the employee used none of his allowable sick leave during the year just ended. The employee shall have the option to choose either time off with pay or just pay.
   D.   Upon separation from the City of Reading, all sick leave is forfeited. Remaining balances cannot be transferred to another employee. 13
      (1)   An employee with five years' seniority who has accumulated a minimum of 30 sick leave days or more who then experiences an illness of 16 working days or more will be eligible to accrue sick leave at the rate of 2 1/2 days per month for the total number of months it would take them to reach a thirty-day accumulation. The total number of months during which the employee may accumulate at the rate of 2 1/2 days per month rate shall be as set forth in the schedule below. During the number of months that the employee would be entitled to accumulate at the two-and-one-half-day rate, any absences shall be subtracted from the days being accumulated. At the end of the period of months during which the employee is entitled to accumulate at the rate of 2 1/2 days per month, the employee would then revert back to the one day a month.
Schedule
Number of Months Eligible to Accumulate 2 1/2
Balance of Sick Days Remaining
2 Days Per Month
29
1
28
1
27
1
26
2
25
2
24
2
23
3
22
3
21
4
20
4
19
4
18
5
17
5
16
5
15
6
14
6
13
7
12
7
11
8
10
8
9
8
 
12. Editor's Note: Original Subsection B, regarding accumulation of sick days, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed during codification (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Part 2).
13. Editor's Note: Amended during codification (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Part 2).
Schedule
Balance of Sick Days Remaining
Number of Months Eligible to Accumulate 2 1/
2 Days Per Month
Balance of Sick Days Remaining
Number of Months Eligible to Accumulate 2 1/
2 Days Per Month
8
9
7
9
6
10
5
10
4
10
3
11
2
11
1
12
0
12