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18.6.2.4 The Personnel Officer or his/her designee may designate the specific beginning and ending dates within the pay period requested by the employee to meet the needs of the employee and the City. 18.6.3 The employee on leave shall be returned to her original position or if that position is not in existence, to an equivalent position within her classification. 18.6.4 A maternity leave, absent physical disability, is granted without pay for the duration of leave. The employee may elect to continue medical and dental insurance coverage for up to one (1) year during this leave at her own expense. 18.6.5 An employee may coordinate a portion of her maternity leave with provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act, as described in Section 18.9. 18.7 Leave for Pregnancy Disability 18.7.1 Employees who are working are entitled to use personal illness and injury leave for disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and recovery therefrom on the same tenns and conditions governing leaves of absence for other illness or medical disability. Such leave shall not be used for child care, child rearing, or preparation for childbearing, but shall be limited to those disabilities as set forth above. The length of such disability leave, including the date on which the leave shall commence and the date on which the duties are to be resumed, shall be detennined by the employee and the employee's physician; however, the Personnel Officer may require a verification of the extent of disability through a physical examination of the employee by a physician appointed by the City at the City's expense. 18.7.2 Employees are entitled to leave without payor other benefits for disabilities because of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, or recovery therefrom when sick leave has been exhausted. The date on which the employee shall resume duties shall be detennined by the employee on leave and the employee's physician; however, the Personnel Office may require a verification ofthe extent of disability through a physical examination of the employee by a physician appointed by the City. 18.7.3 The employee on leave shall be returned to her original position or if that position is not in existence to an equivalent position within her classification. A worker may coordinate a portion of her pregnancy leave with provisions of the Family & Medical Leave Act, as described in Section 18.9. 24 ... ,.. .. -, ..- " - ^-_.........._.,...,..-._.~.-.-.