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§10.6 Sick Leave Accumulation

Employees who are entitled to earn and accumulate sick leave credits

may accumulate such credits up to a total of 200 days. Employees shall
have the ability to use up to 200 days of such credits for retirement service

credit and to pay for health insurance in retirement.
§10.7 Use of Sick Leave

(a) General
Sick leave credits may be used in such units of time as the appointing

authority may approve, but the appointing authority shall not require that
sick leave credits be used in units greater than one-quarter hour.

(b) 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.
§10.8 Use of Sick Leave at Half Pay

(a) An appointing authority shall grant such 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 his/her 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 an

employee during his/her State service shall not exceed one payroll period

for each completed six months of 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

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