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authority may approve, but the appointing authority shall not require that

sick leave credits be used in units greater than one-quarter hour.

(e) Disabled Veterans
Absences resulting from treatment of service-connected disabilities at a

facility operated by the Veterans Administration shall represent an
appropriate charge to sick leave credits and shall not be subject to review

under absenteeism control programs.
§10.9 Use of Sick Leave at Half Pay

(a) An appointing authority may grant sick leave at half pay 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 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 half pay, or the employee has
been found guilty of the time and attendance charges served within one year

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

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