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B. An employee who has completed less than one year's service during the calendar year shall receive a proportionate fraction in accordance with the amount of service to his or her credit during the year; provided, however, no employee shall be entitled to, or receive payment for, any vacation until be or she 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 his or her earned vacation, subject to scheduling approval of the employee's supervisor. D. Absence on sick leave for a period in excess of fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days shall not be considered as service for vacation accrual purposes. E. Computation of Vacation. In computing vacation, each municipal holiday that occurs during the vacation, and that falls on a day which the employee would have worked had he or she not been on vacation, shall be deducted from the computation so that ten (10) additional hours of vacation shall be allowed to the employee unless departmental practice provides some other manner of compensating for municipal holidays. Should an employee be confined to a hospital for sickness or injury while on authorized vacation, each Rill day of such confinement, when confirmed by a physician's statement and approval of the Police Chief, may be deducted from the computation of vacation expended and charged against the employee's accumulated sick leave. 2. A period of earlier service does not apply toward vacation accumulation when an employee has had a break in continuous service, unless the break in service is concluded by reappointment, as provided in Section 9-114 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code or by reemployment from layoff within one (1) year. Leave of absence without pay, as provided in Article XI, Section 1E (Sick Leave -Extended) and Section I L8 (Authorized Absence without Pay - Long Tenn), Section 11.11 (Catastrophic Leave Donation) herein, does not constitute a break in continuous service as used in this section; however, the leave of absence period shall not be applied toward the accumulation of longevity vacation. Absence on military leave followed by reinstatement, as provided in Section 9-143 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code does not constitute a break in service, and the period of absence on such military leave shall be applied toward the accumulation of longevity vacation. P. Vacation Buy -Back. Employees covered by this MOU are eligible to require the City to buy-back up to sixty (60) hours of their banked vacation, computed on a straight time basis, once per calendar year, 38