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employees except as hereinafter provided, at the rate of one (1) working day for each full calendar month of service. Upon satisfactory completion of six (6) months of service, an employee shall be credited with six (6) days sick leave and shall accumulate sick leave thereafter at the rate of one (1) day for each calendar month of service. Sick leave shall be defined as the non-job related absence from work due to illness, bodily injury, exposure to contagious disease, and caring of family members whose illness required the employee's care. Unused sick leave may be accumulated to maximum sick leave credits of one hundred twenty (120) working days (960 hours). In the event an employee has accumulated the maximum sick leave credits of one hundred twenty (120) days and the employee becomes so severely ill that he exhausts his/her sick leave, the Personnel Officer may, upon the written recommendation from the employee's department head, authorize additional sick leave to include any sick leave in excess of the one hundred twenty (120) days maximum which may have been lost due to the maximum limitation; provided, however, that sick leave credits were not accumulated for a period of six (6) months or longer. An employee may elect to receive compensation in lieu Qf sick leave credits for any calendar year by requesting payment of unused sick leave in writing to the Director of Finance on or before December 1 of that year. Payment shall be made at twenty-five (25%) of the value of the unused sick leave for that calendar year at the salary for the year the payment is being made and shall be made after December 31. There shall be no payment in lieu of accumulated sick leave benefits for years prior to such calendar year. Accumulated sick leave credits shall be reduced by the value of the sick leave compensated as provided in the above paragraph and the remaining balance shall be accumulated to a maximum of one hundred twenty (120) working days (960 hours). If an employee terminates his/her employment, for reasons other than death, retirement or discharge, compensation in lieu of unused sick leave shall be paid in accordance with the terms provided for an employee who may elect to receive compensation in lieu of sick leave credits, prorated to the date of termination of service. Employees who retire from City employment with benefits from PERS or who die while in the employ of the City shall be eligible to receive twenty-five percent (25%) of accrued unused sick leave. In the event of the death of an employee, such payments shall be made to the designated beneficiary filed with the Director of Finance, or, in the event no designated beneficiary has been chosen, the beneficiary li'sted in the employee's insurance policy will receive the payment of such unused sick leave as provided under the provisions for an employee who elects to receive compensation in lieu of sick leave credits. Employees discharged shall not be eligible for payment of unused sick leave. If an employee1s illness results in an absence from work for three (3) or more days, a doctor's certificate or other reasonable proof of illness may be required by the City. 7 ......-..---...-............-....