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compensation. <br />I. Excess Usaee. If sick leave is used in excess of that due and available to an <br />employee, such excess sick leave will first be deducted from any available <br />compensatory time off benefit; second, deducted from vacation leave; third, from <br />the next scheduled salary payment. <br />Necessity Leave. Each employee shall be afforded the opportunity to use up to 36 <br />hours of sick leave per calendar year, on a non-cumulative basis, as personal <br />necessity leave. All of this personal necessity leave may be used to attend to an <br />illness of a child, parent, or spouse of the employee. As used in this section, <br />"child" means a biological, foster, or adopted child, a stepchild, a legal ward, or a <br />child of a person standing in loco parentis; "parent" means a biological, foster, <br />adoptive parent, a stepparent, or a legal guardian; and "immediate family" means <br />any member of the employee's household related by blood or marriage; a parent, <br />parent-in-law, spouse, child, brother, sister, grandparent, or grandchild of the <br />employee, regardless of residence; any other relative of the employee by blood or <br />marriage, where it can be established by the employee that the employee's <br />presence is required to handle emergency arrangements and/or other matters. <br />This 36 hours of personal necessity leave also may be used: a) to attend to a <br />serious accident to a member of the employee's immediate family; b) childbirth; <br />c) to cope with imminent danger to the employee's family, home, or other <br />valuable property; or d) when the existence of external circumstances beyond the <br />employee's control make it impossible for him or her to report for duty. <br />10.2 Military Leave. <br />A. Proof of Orders and Reinstatements. An employee shall be granted military leave <br />if he or she furnishes the Executive Director of Personnel Services satisfactory <br />proof of his or her order to report for duty. Upon return and upon showing of <br />proof of actual service pursuant to such orders, he or she will be reinstated as <br />provided by law. <br />B. Temporary. Members of the reserve forces of the United States, or the National <br />Guard, granted temporary leave when ordered to duty, will be granted leave with <br />pay not to exceed thirty (30) working days in each calendar year after the hourly <br />equivalent of one (1) year's service with the City upon presenting satisfactory <br />proof of orders to and from such temporary active duties. <br />10.3 Jurv and Witness Leave. When an on-duty employee is called to serve as a juror or non- <br />party witness in any court action, he or she shall be allowed to leave for the time actually <br />required for such service, not to exceed six (6) hours per day, without loss of pay. Each <br />on-duty employee called for such service shall present to his or her Department Head for <br />examination the subpoena calling him or her to such service and shall pay into the City <br />Treasury the fees collected for such service, with the exception of reimbursement for <br />transportation expenses, if any. <br />10.4 Examination Leave. Employees participating in examinations conducted during their <br />24