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Sectlou 7. Annual Leave - Maximum Accumulation Annual leave may he accumulated without any applicable maximum until December 31 Of each calendar year. However, if an employee separates from sex-;ace, payment for accumulated annual leave shall not exceed 240 hours (336 hours in thc c~== =flor Emergency Medical Services Personnel and 252 hours for law enforcement officers worklng a 12 hour 8hlft schedule ) At the end of each benefit year on December 31, any county employee with accrued annual vacation leave in excess of 240 a =chc~u!T =f 2~ h=ur= tr. duty ~- :~ .hour_- =fl ~-uty) shall have this leave converted to sick leave. This converted sick leave shall be used in the same manner as accrued sick leave and may be used for authorized sick leave purposes And, like regular sick leave, any unused converted sick leave may be counted toward creditable service at retirement u~ tT = =~r~:l.--..u~.. =f 12 t=tal =is:: l:--v= ~--~]'~- ~=r y=--r =f ==.--.'=c=. As regulated by the North Carolina Local Governmental Employees ara cautioned not to retain excess accumulation of annual leave until late in the calendar year Due to the necessity of keeping all County functions in operation, large numbers of employees cannot be granted annual leave at any one time. If an employee has excess leavs accu~lation during the 1attar part of the year and is unable to take such leave because of staffing demands, the employee shall receive no special consideration either in havln9 annual leave scheduled or in receiving any exception to the maximum accumulation Section 8 Annual Leave and Previous Leave Credit Annual leave credit accumulated by each employee as of the adoption of this Personnel Ordinance shall be retained as of the effective date of this Ordinance Section 9 Annual Leave o Approval/Manner of Taklnq Leave Annual leave earned by an employee shall be taken only upon prior approval of the immediate supervisor or department head. Section 10. Annual Leave - Terminal Pay and Repayment of Annual Leave An employee who as separated shall be paid for annual leave accumulated to the date of separation, not to exceed a maximum of 240 hours (336 hours for Emergency Medical Services Personnel and 252 hours for law enforcement officers working a 12 hour shaft schedule). Section 11 A~nual Leave - Payment for Accumulated Annual Leave Upon Death The estate of an employee who dies while employed by the County shall be entitled to payment for all Of the accumulated annual leave credited to the employee's account not to exceed a maximum of 240 hours (336 hours for Emergency Medlcal Services Personnel and 252 hours for law enforcement officers working a 12 hour shaft schedule ). The date of death shall be used as the date Of separation for purpose of determining such payment Section 12. Sick Leave All re~lar a~d probationary employees who are scheduled to work at least 1,000 hours during the calendar year shall receive sick leave in accordance with this policy Sick leave with pay is not a right which an employee ~ay demand but a pri~ilege granted by the Board Of Commissioners for the benefit Of an employee when sick and for other authorized purposes: (a) Sick leave shall be granted to an employee absent fr~ work for any of the following reasons, sickness, bodily in]ury, or required physical or dental examinations and treatment or exposure to a contagious disease when continuing work might jeopardize the health of others (b) Sick leave may be used when illness, ~nJury, or a medical appointment of a member of an employee's i~medlate family (that lives in the same household as the employee, and/or for whom the employee has legal responsibility) regulres the presence of the employee, but may not exceed forty =i~ht {~48 hours ~zlxty f=ur ~(64 hours for ~mergency Medical Services Personnel~ a~d 50 hours for law enforcement officers working a 12 hour shaft schedule) for any one calendar year. (C) Sick leave may also he used for death in the employee's immediate family, but may not exceed tucnty four ~24~ hours [th:rty t~c (32~ hours for Emergency Medical Services Personnel and 25 hours for law enforcement officers working a 12 hour shaft schedule) ~ for any one Occurrence, except by special permission from the department head. Note. For the purposes Of (b) and (c) Immediate family shall be deemed to include spouse, mother, father, guardian, children, sister, brother, grandparents, grandchildren, plus the various comblnat/ons of half, step, in-law, and adoptive relationships that can be derived from those named Foster children under the care of an employee shall be deemed Immediate family for these purposes. Unless physically impossible, notification of the desire to take sick leave should be submitted to the employee's supervisor prior to the beginning of the scheduled workday Section 13 Sick Leave - Manner of Accumulation Anniversary date of employment shall be used for determining sick leave For the purpose of calculating sick leave, the basic work week shall be forty (40) hours Sach regular and probationary employee scheduled to work at least 1,000 hours during the calendar year shall be credited sick leave at the rate of ~ hours, 41 minutes and 32 seconds for each completed hl- weekly pay period, or 95 hours, 59 m~nutes and ~2 seconds for each completed year (52 weeks) of service Emergency medical service personnel shall be credited sick leave at the rate Of 5 hours, minutes and 1~ seconds for each co~leted bi-weekly pay period, or 133 hours, 59 minutes and 13 seconds for each completed year (52 weeks) of service Law enforcement offlcers working a 12 hour shift schedule shall be credited sack leave at the rate of 3 hours, 52 minutes, and 36 seconds for each completed baweekly pay period, or I00 hours, 47 minutes, a~d 51 seconds for each completed year (B2 weeks) of service. _~z..crgc~cy ..~cdlcl! pcrc:.~uu! These employees shall be charged on an hour for hour basis for sick leave taken