(A) All regularly employed police officers of the city duly qualified under the Police Civil Service Act, being W. Va. Code 8-14-17 et seq., shall be entitled to one day sick leave per month cumulative to a total of 12 days in any calendar year, but not thereafter, for incapacitating illness or injury.
(B) Before a regularly employed police officer is entitled to sick leave pay, he or she shall first notify the Chief of Police of his or her incapacitating illness or injury as soon as reasonably practicable and shall thereafter produce a physician’s certificate of said incapacitating illness or injuries of more than three days duration, to both the Chief of Police and the Mayor, of his or her illness or injury.
(C) It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to record, in a permanently bound book open to the inspection of the Mayor and Common Council, the sick leave time granted to the members of the force and the day, month, and year in which the same was granted. The Chief of Police shall further record the vacation time granted to members of the force and the day, month, and year in which the same was granted.
(Prior Code, § 22-5) (Ord. passed 2-4-1985)
Statutory reference:
Authority to provide for allowance of time with pay for employees, see W. Va. Code 8-5-12