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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 within one year

preceding the request for sick leave at half-pay or the employee did not
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 issues 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dismissed by an arbitrator or umpire or withdrawn by the appointing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; 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

provisions of the Civil Service Law, Rules and Regulations.
§10.9 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.
§10.10 Accounting of Time Accruals and Hours Worked

(a) The State shall prepare and distribute to employees forms for
maintaining leave records on a self-accounting basis. Each employee shall

be advised of the leave accruals to his/her credit on official records at least

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