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September 21, 2009 (Regular Meeting) Page 1587 during the calendar year shall be credited sick leave at the rate of 3 hours, 91 minutes and 32 seconds for each completed bi-weekly pay period, or 95 hours, 59 minutes and 52 seconds for each completed year (52 weeks) of service. Emergency Medical Service 29/48 personnel shall be credited sick leave at the rate of 5 hours, 9 minutes and 13 seconds for each completed bi-weekly pay period, or 133 hours, 59 minutes and 13 seconds for each completed year (52 weeks) of service. Law enforcement officers working a 12 hour shift schedule shall be credited sick leave at the rate of 3 hours, 52 minutes, and 36 seconds for each completed biweekly pay period, or 100 hours, 47 minutes, and 51 seconds for each completed year (52 weeks) of service. These employees shall be charged on an hour for hour basis for sick leave taken. Sick leave credited to regular and probationary employees scheduled to work at least 1,000 hours during the calendar year but fewer hours than the basic work week shall be determined in accordance with the formula set forth in Section 15 of this Article. Section 10. Advance Sick Leave The County Manager may advance sick leave to an employee who has exhausted sick leave because of a major operation or illness. This advanced sick leave may not exceed 80 hours, except with the approval of the Board of Commissioners. At the time of an employee's separation, any sick leave owed the County shall be deducted from the employee's final compensation or collected from him or her, if not available in his or her final compensation. Section 11. Sick Leave - Maximum Accrual There is no limit on the amount of sick leave that may be accrued. Section 12. Sick Leave - Medical Documentation The employee's supervisor or department head may require medical documentation concerning the nature of an illness and/or employee's physical capacity to resume duties for each occasion on which an employee uses sick leave to insure that there is no abuse of sick leave privileges. Section 13. Sick Leave - Retirement Credit for Accrued Sick Leave One month of retirement credit is allowed for each 20 days and part thereof accrued in an employee's sick leave account at time of retirement to employees who are members of the North Carolina Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System or Law Enforcement Officers' Benefit and Retirement Fund. Section 14. Sick Leave - Credit from Previous Employment Employees hired after the effective date of this Ordinance and previously employed by a governmental entity in North Carolina will receive credit with Cabarrus County for up to 20 days sick leave accrued at that entity. In extraordinary circumstances the County Manager may grant additional credit of transferable hours. Accrued sick leave over 20 days will be credited the pay period of separation from County employment. The employee must have been employed by the governmental entity immediately prior (within the last 30 days) to County Employment and that entity must document the accrued sick leave amount and that the employee was not reimbursed for any portion of the reported leave. Section 15 Calculation of Vacation and Sick Leave for Part time Employees Vacation leave and sick leave credited to regular and probationary employees scheduled to work at least 1,000 hours during the calendar year and having a work week with fewer hours than the basic work week, shall be determined in accordance with the following formula: (a)The number of hours worked by such an employee in their normal work week shall be divided by the number of hours in the basic work week of a regular full time employee in a like or similar position. (b)The percentage obtained in (a) shall be used to obtain the prorated amount