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ORDINANCE NO. NS-1196 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANAAMENDING SECTION 9-187 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROVIDE FOR OVERTIME PAY FOR EACH COURT APPEARANCE AND STAND-BY BY A CITY EMPLOYEE DURING HIS OFF-DUTY TIME IN REGARD TO CITY BUSINESS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That Sec. 9-187 in Chapter 9, Article VII, of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 9-187. City personnel, court appearance. compensation for court appearances by city employees shall be as follows: (a) For each court appearance made by an employee dur- ing his off-duty time in regard to city business three (3) hours overtime will be granted and paid on a straight time basis. If court appearances are made both in the morning and afternoon of a particular day, three (3) hours will be allowed for each session attended. The employee must pro- vide a copy of the subpoena requiring his atten- dance to initiate payroll procedures. Such per- sonnel may not receive time off with pay as com- pensation for overtime accrued as the result of court appearances. (b) A subpoenaed employee scheduled to appear in court on city business during off-duty time may be placed on stand-by status by his department head or autho- rized representative. In the even such off-duty employee is on stand-by status during any court session and is not required to appear in court, such employee shall be compensated two hours over- time , paid on a straight time basis, for each court session. If such off-duty employee on stand-by actually appears in court, he shall be compensated only as provided in sub-section (a) above. Any employee on stand-by status who fails to appear in court ready to testify within thirty (30) minutes after notifi- cation to appear shall not receive compensation for either stand-by or for appearance. Notwithstanding sub-sections [a} and [b}, whenever an employee either commences or terminates his on- duty shift while he is appearing in court or is on stand-by status, his sole compensation for off-duty time spent in court or on stand-by shall be on a straight time basis paid in half-hour increments.