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• Administrative Holiday - At the option of the employee, an employee may receive pay at the employee's straight -time rate of pay in lieu of one or both of the administrative holidays at eight (8) hours per administrative holiday. • Holiday During Vacation - In the event any of the holidays above occur while an employee is on vacation or sick leave, the holiday shall not be charged as vacation or sick leave. d. Sick Leave - Sick leave with pay shall be granted to all regular 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 1200 hours. In the event an employee has accumulated the maximum sick leave credits of 1200 hours and the employee becomes so severely ill that he exhausts his/her sick leave, the Human Resources Director may authorize additional sick leave to include any sick leave in excess of the 1200 hours 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 of sick leave credits for any calendar year by requesting payment of unused sick leave in writing to the Director of Finance. Payment shall be made at fifty (50%) 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 1200 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 fifty percent (50%) of accrued unused sick leave. In the event of the death of an employee, such payments shall be made to the 3