SANTA ANA POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION (6)

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year of service , ac ued at the rate of 6 2/3 h irs for each completed month of service . Thereafter , all such employees shall be granted regular vacation at the rate of 15 working days for each completed year of service , accrued at the rate of 10 working hours for each completed month of service . B. An employee who has completed less than on year' s ser- vice 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, or receive payment for any vacation until he has completed six (6 ) months of continuous service. C. On or after the first ( 1st) day of the month following completion of six ( 6 ) months of continuous full-time service , an employee may be allowed to take all or a proportionate fraction of hip or her earned vacation , subject to scheduling approval of the employee' s supervisor. D. Absence on sick leave for a period of excess of fifteen ( 15 ) consecutive calendar days shall not be considered as service for vacation accrual purposes. E. Vacation time off may be taken in increments as small as one ( 1 ) hour, with fractional usage rounded upward to the next higher multiple of one ( 1) . F. Computation of Regular Vacation: ( 1 ) In computing regular vacation, each municipal holiday that occurs during the vacation, and that falls on a day which the employee would have worked had he/she not been on vacation, shall be deducted from the computation so that one additional day of regular vacation shall be allowed to the em- ployee unless departmental practice provides some other manner of compensating for municipal holidays. Should an employee be con- fined to a hospital for sickness or injury while on authorized vacation , each full day of such confinement , when confirmed by a physician' s statement and approval of the Chief of Police , may be deducted from the computation of vacation expended and charged against the employee' s accumulated sick leave. (2) No employee may carry over from one calendar year to the next, more than the equivalent of two ( 2) regular vacation periods from the previous two ( 2) years, and vacation not taken beyond that amount is forfeited. A regular vacation period is defined as the maximum amount of vacation earned in a calendar year as provided in sub-section A, supra. (3) No employee shall have a right to accumulate or split his/her vacation, but the same may be allowed or required by the Chief of Police. The time at which an employee shall take his/ her vacation shall be determined by the Chief of Police, with due -20-