(A) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
REGULARLY EMPLOYED MEMBER OF THE WESTON STREET DEPARTMENT. One who has been employed in that Department for a period of six consecutive months, in each of which months he or she has worked at least 160 hours, or one who has worked in said Department for a period of six months, non-consecutively, within a period of seven consecutive months, and in each of which said six months he or she shall have worked at least 160 hours.
(B) All regularly employed members of the city’s Street Department, a regularly employed member being as hereinbefore defined in division (A) above, shall be entitled to one day of sick leave per month, cumulative, to a total of 12 days in any calendar year. If such 12 days are not used in any calendar year, they are not cumulative, and do not carry over unto any other calendar year.
(C) Before a regularly employed member of the Street Department is entitled to sick leave pay, he or she shall first notify the city’s Street Commissioner of his or her illness or injury, as soon as reasonably practicable, and shall thereafter produce a physician’s certificate for illness of more than three days duration, to both the city’s Street Commissioner and the Mayor, of his or her illness or injury.
(D) It shall be the duty of the city’s Street Commissioner to record, in a permanently bound book, open to the inspection of the Mayor and Common Council, the sick leave time granted to members of the city’s Street Department, and the day, month, and year in which the same was granted. The Street Commissioner shall further record the vacation time granted to members of the city’s Street Department, and the day, month, and year in which the same was granted.
(Prior Code, § 2-18.2) (Ord. passed 1-7-1974)