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ARTICLE X <br />10.0 VACATION <br />10.1 Pu ose. It is the policy of the City to grant employees vacation leave in order to provide <br />them with a break in their regular ~~~ork schedule, and this purpose will be used as a guide in <br />the administration of the provisions of this Article. <br />10.2 Reuular Vacation Period. <br />A. Full time employees shall be granted regular vacation at the rate of 80 hours for each <br />of his or her first and second completed year of service, accrued on a monthly basis at <br />the rate of 6 2/3 hours for each completed month of service. Thereafter, all such <br />employees shall be granted regular vacation at the rate of 120 hours for each <br />completed year of service, accrued at the rate of 10 hours for each completed month <br />of service. <br />B. An employee who has completed less than one year's service during the calendar year <br />shall receive a proportionate fraction in accordance with the amount of service to his <br />or her credit during the year; provided, however, no employee shall be entitled to, or <br />receive payment for, any vacation until he or she has completed six (6) months of <br />continuous service. <br />C. On or after the first (1st) day of the month following completion of six (6) months of <br />continuous full-time service, an employee may be allowed to take all or a <br />proportionate fraction of leis or her earned vacation, subject to scheduling approval of <br />the employee's supervisor. <br />D. Absence on sick leave for• a period in excess of fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days <br />shall not be considered as service for vacation accrual purposes. <br />E. Computation of Regular Vacation. <br />1. In computing regular vacation, each municipal holiday that occurs during the <br />vacation, and that falls on a day which the employee would have worked had <br />he or she not been on vacation, shall be deducted from the computation so <br />that ten (10) additional hours of regular vacation shall be allowed to the <br />employee unless departmental practice provides some other manner of <br />compensating for municipal holidays. Should an employee be confined to a <br />hospital for sickness or injury while on authorized vacation, each full day of <br />such confinement, when confirmed by a physician's statement and approval <br />of the Police Chief, may be deducted from the computation of vacation <br />expended and charged against the employee's accumulated sick leave. <br />2. No employee may carry over from one calendar year to the next, more than <br />the equivalent of two (2) regular vacation periods from the previous two (2) <br />years, and vacation not taken beyond that amount is forfeited. A regular <br />38 <br />