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I. Excess Usage. If sick leave is used in excess of that clue and available to an <br />employee, such excess sick leave will, first, be deducted from any available vacation <br />leave benefit; finally, deducted from the next scheduled salary payment. <br />Personal Necessity Leave. Each employee shall be afforded the opportunity to use up <br />to 48 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, a child <br />means a biological, foster, or adopted child, a stepchild, a. legal ward, or a child of a <br />person standing in loco parentis; and a parent means a biological, foster, adoptive <br />parent; a stepparent, or a legal guardian. <br />Up to three (3) days of this personal necessity leave may be used: (a) to attend to a <br />serious accident to members of the employee's immediate family; (b) childbirth; (c) <br />to cope with imminent danger to the employee's home or other valuable property; or <br />(d) when the existence of external circumstances beyond the employee's control <br />make it impractical for him or her to report for duty, For the purposes of this section <br />only, a "day" shall be defined as the number of hours of work that an employee is <br />required to work according to his or her specific workday schedule, <br />K. PaynIent for Unused Sick Leave. <br />1. Payment criteria and hinitations. <br />a. Upon non - disciplinary termination of employment after ten (10) years <br />of cumulative full -time service with the City, each qualified employee <br />with less than twenty -five (25) years o' cumulative full -time service <br />with the City shall be entitled to payment for one -third (1/3) of the <br />total sick leave benefit credited to his or her account upon the <br />effective date of such termination, not to exceed a maximum limit of <br />427 hours at the rate of pay effective on the date of such termination. <br />b, Affected qualified employees who have completed twenty -five (25) <br />years or more of cumulative full -time service with the City shall be <br />entitled to payment for two - thirds (2/3) of the total sick leave benefit <br />credited to his or her account upon the effective date of such <br />termination, not to exceed amaximum limit of 1,467 hours at therate <br />of pay effective on the elate of such termination, <br />C. At the employee's election, payment of unused sick leave may be <br />received in either a limp sun of money or in equal monthly payimonts <br />for a period of up to five (5) years. <br />28 <br />