(A) All officers and employees to whom § 31.22 applies, shall, regardless of length of service, be entitled to five sick days per year, as reckoned from the anniversary date of the person’s employment.
(B) Unused sick days may accrue from year to year to ten days, may not be used as additional vacation days and do not entitle a person to monetary compensation in lieu of unused sick days.
(C) An employee must notify his or her department head or chief supervisor as soon as possible when a sick day is necessary or, in the case of an officer or department head not otherwise having a supervisor, the Town Council President shall be notified, with notice also to the Clerk-Treasurer for payroll and accounting purposes.
(D) In the case of extended or chronic illness, the Town Council may, in its full discretion, grant an officer or employee additional paid sick leave beyond the five-day allotment and any accrued sick days to a maximum of 15 sick days provided by this section.
(‘85 Code, § 2-8-4) (Ord. 1985-C11, passed 9-16-85)