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§10.14 Tardiness-Emergency Duties

An appointing authority shall excuse a reasonable amount of tardiness

caused by direct emergency duties of duly authorized volunteer ambulance
squad members, volunteer fire fighters and enrolled civil defense

volunteers. In such cases, the appointing authority may require the
employee to submit satisfactory evidence that the lateness was due to such

emergency duties.
§10.15 Use of Sick Leave at Half Pay

An appointing authority may grant sick leave at half pay at any time in
accordance with the Attendance Rules and shall grant sick leave at half pay

for personal illness to a permanent employee eligible for such leave and
subject to the following conditions:

(1) The employee shall not have less than one cumulative year of State
service;

(2) The employee’s sick leave, vacation credit, overtime credits,
compensatory credits and other accrued credits shall have been exhausted;

the employee shall be deemed to have exhausted the employee’s accrued
credits when the sum of the employee’s remaining credits, in the aggregate,

is less than the number of hours in the employee’s normal workday; such
credits as are remaining shall be retained by the employee;

(3) The cumulative total of all sick leave at half pay granted to any
employee during his or her State service shall not exceed one payroll period

for each completed six months of the employee’s State service;
(4)(a) Sick leave at half-pay shall be granted immediately following

exhaustion of leave credits except to employees who have been formally

disciplined for leave abuse within the preceding year.
(b) Employees who have been formally disciplined for leave abuse within
the preceding year shall be granted sick leave at half pay following ten

consecutive workdays of absence, unless such waiting period is waived by

the appointing authority.
(c) For purposes of this subsection, an employee is deemed to have been

formally disciplined for leave abuse if any of the following conditions
occurred: a time and attendance notice of discipline was settled within one

year preceding the request for sick leave at one half pay, or the employee
has been found guilty of the time and attendance charges within one year

preceding the request for sick leave at half pay or the employee did not

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