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ORDINANCE NO. NS-577 AMENDING SECTIONS 2252, 2253, 2255, 2267 AND 2268 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE REGULATING VACATIONS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That Sections 2252, 2253, 2255, 2267 and 2268 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code are hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 2252. ~eqular Vacation Period. Regular vacation with pay is granted to each full-time employee at the rate of fifteen (15) working days for each completed year of service to be taken in the calendar year following the year in which it is earned, except as provided elsewhere in these rules. An employee who has completed less than one year's service during the calendar year shall receive a proportionate fraction in accordance with the amount of service to his credit during the year, provided however, no employee shall be entitled to any vacation until he has completed six (6) months of continuous Service. Each member of the Police Force and Fire Department is hereby granted fifteen (15) consecutive days of regular vacation with pay for each full year of service with the City, as provided for in Government Code Sections 38634 and 53250. This shall be known as the "Regular Vacation Period" and it shall be subject to all terms of these Rules and Regulations. sEcTION 2253. Computinq Reqular Vacation. In computing regular vacation, each municipal holiday that occurs during the vacation, and that falls on a day which the ~nployee would have worked had he not been on vacation, shall be deducted from the computation so that one additional day of regular vacation shall be allowed to the employee unless departmental practice provides some other manner of compensating for municipal holidays. No employee may accumulate more than the equivalent of one regular vacation period from a previous year, and vacation not taken beyond that amount is forfeited. A regular vacation period ks defined as the maximum amount of vacation earned in a calendar year as provided in Section 2252 of this Code. No employee shall have a right to accumulate or split his vacation, but the same may be allowed or required by the department head. The time at which an employee shall take his vacation shall be determined by his department head, with due regard for the wishes of the employee and particular regard for the needs of the service. It is the policy of the City to grant employees vacation in order to provide them a break in their regular work schedule. In the administration of the provisions of this Section the department head shall be guided by this stated purpose and he must approve in writing any accumulation of regular vacation. -1-