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contest the time and attendance notice of discipline served within one year

preceding the request for sick leave at half pay. It does not include notices

of discipline regarding charges other than time and attendance or those
dismissed by an arbitrator or umpire or withdrawn by the appointing

authority.
(5) Satisfactory medical documentation shall be furnished and continue

to be periodically furnished at the request of the appointing authority; in the
absence of satisfactory medical documentation, the appointing authority

may require an employee to be examined by a physician selected by the
State at its expense; and

(6)(a) Such leave shall not extend a period of appointment or employment
beyond such date as it would otherwise have terminated pursuant to law or

have expired upon completion of a specified period of service.
(b) Nothing contained herein shall supersede the continuous absence

provision of the Civil Service Law, Rules and Regulations.
§10.10 Use of Personal Leave

(a) The State shall not require an employee to give a reason as a condition
for approving the use of personal leave credits, provided, however, that

prior approval for the requested leave must be obtained, that the resulting
absence will not interfere with the proper conduct of governmental

functions, and that an employee who has exhausted his or her personal
leave credits shall charge approved absences from work necessitated by

personal business or religious observance to accumulated vacation or
overtime credits.

(b) Personal leave credits may be used in such units of time as the

appointing authority may approve, but the appointing authority shall not
require that personal leave credits be used in units greater than one-quarter
hour. This provision shall not supersede any local arrangements which

provide for liquidation in smaller units of time.

(c) Personal leave may properly be used in the event of absences due to
death in the immediate family.
(d) Personal leave may be used in conjunction with or as an employee’s

vacation, and shall be subject to the same conditions as govern vacation.

(e) An employee who is unexpectedly and unavoidably absent from
work, such that prior approval for the absence could not be obtained,

and who notifies the appropriate official within two hours after the

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