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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 terms 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 determined by the employee and the employee's physician; however, the Human Resources Director 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 pay or 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 determined by the employee on leave and the employee's physician; however, the Personnel Office may require a verification of the 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. 18.8 Bereavement Leave 18.8.1 In the event of a death in the immediate family of an employee of the City, that employee shall, upon request, be granted such time off with pay as is necessary to make arrangements for and/or attend the funeral not to exceed three (3) regularly scheduled working days or four (4) days in the event the funeral is 300 or more miles from the City. This provision does not apply if the death occurs during the employee's paid vacation or while the employee is on leave of absence, layoff or sick leave. 18.8.2 For the purpose of this provision, the immediate family shall be restricted to father, mother, brother, sister, spouse, domestic partner, child, half brother, half sister, stepbrother, stepsister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, and stepfather, stepmother, stepchild in those cases where direct child rearing -parental relationship may be demonstrated to have existed.