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employee must be unable to work at the position or any less demanding position to which <br />assigned by the Police Chief, and must have exhausted all accumulates sick leave, vacation, <br />holiday, overtime and all other accumulated leave or pay benefits. <br />Upon receiving prior approval, an employee shall be allowed catastrophic leave up to a total of <br />one-half (lh) of the accumulated sick leave the employee had when the catastrophic illness <br />occurred to a maximum catastrophic leave of fifty (50) workdays; an employee who does not <br />have twenty (20) days' accumulated sick leave at the time the catastrophic illness occurs maybe <br />permitted up to ten (10) workings days' catastrophic leave. Leave under this section shall <br />become effective .after all other paid leave is exhausted. During any period of catastrophic <br />illness leave, the employee shall receive compensation at the. rate of sixty percent (60%) of <br />regular base pay. <br />A minimum of one (1) year. must elapse following the termination of the catastrophic illness <br />leave before an employee may be permitted further catastrophic illness leave. However, if <br />subsequent catastrophic illness occurs within a year following the termination of the precious <br />catastrophic illness leave, an employee may be permitted to use whatever accumulated paid leave <br />such employee has and then whatever catastrophic illness leave the employee was eligible far but <br />did not use. <br />The same principles concerning the administration of the sick leave benefit shall be used for this <br />benefit where applicable. <br />Section 18. Jury Duty <br />Any employee who has one (1) or more years of continuous service .with the City, when <br />reporting for jury service as specified by summons, will be entitled to the difference between <br />jury duty pay and the regular daily rate of pay for each day of jury service up to a maximum of <br />fifteen (15) working days during any twelve (12) consecutive months. <br />Employees scheduled to work the graveyard shift immediately preceding a day of jury duty as <br />above defined will not be required to work such shift and will receive jury duty pay in lieu <br />thereof, subject to the foregoing maximum limitation. <br />Any day or swing shift employee scheduled to begin service on a jury before 12:00 noon shall <br />not be required to report to -work beforehand. Any employee released from jury duty prior to <br />12:30 p.m., shall report to work for the balance of the shift. <br />An employee who is scheduled for jury service or who serves on a jury on Friday and Monday <br />will not be required to work on a Saturday or Sunday unless it is at the overtime rate of pay. <br />Days of jury duty and all fees paid shall be verified by the court official responsible for issuing <br />checks in payment of jury service. Service not paid for by the court is not covered by this <br />section. <br />Section 19. Leave of Absence Without Pay <br />A leave of absence may be granted to an employee when it would improve the quality of the <br />employee's job performance for the City government or when such leave is in other ways <br />considered to be in the best interest of the City service. This could include leave for such <br />13 <br />