§ 71-11. Sick leave with pay for classified service employees.

A. 

Every permanent employee or employee holding temporary appointment pending examination in the classified civil service of the City of North Wildwood, other than members of the Police and Fire Departments, shall be granted, in addition to annual vacation leave with pay, one working day's sick leave with pay for each month of service from the date of regular appointment up to and including December 31st next following such date of appointment and 15 days' sick leave with pay for each calendar year thereafter.

B. 

If any such employee requires none or a portion only of such allowable sick leave for any calendar year, the amount of such leaves not taken shall accumulate to his credit from year to year and he shall be entitled to such accumulated sick leave with pay if and when needed.

C. 

The total years of service of an individual employee, after temporary appointment pending examination with appointment later made permanent, in the classified civil service of the City of North Wildwood, both prior and subsequent to the adoption of the Civil Service Law, shall be considered in computing accumulated sick leave due and available.

D. 

"Sick leave," for purposes herein, is defined to mean absence from duty of an employee because of personal illness by reason of which such employee is unable to perform the usual duties of his position, exposure to contagious disease, a short period of emergency attendance upon a member of his immediate family critically ill and requiring the presence of such employee or death in the immediate family. For the purpose of these rules, "member of immediate family" is interpreted as meaning father, mother, husband, wife, child, sister, brother or other near relative in residence. Sick leave shall not be interpreted as including an extended period where the employee serves as nurse or housekeeper during a protracted illness of a member of the immediate family.

E. 

Sick leave for a period greater than three days or totaling more than 10 days in one calendar year shall be granted only on the certificate of the departmental physician or a reputable physician, in which it is certified that the leave requested is within the provisions of the statutes and these rules, except that sick leave claimed by reason of quarantine or exposure to contagious disease may be approved on the certificate of the local Department of Health and in the case of death in the family, upon such reasonable proof as the department head shall require.

F. 

An employee who does not expect to report for work because of personal illness or for any of the reasons included in the foregoing definition of sick leave shall notify his immediate superior or some other person in his particular employment unit by telephone or personal message at 8:00 a.m. or other beginning hour of work for his position.

G. 

No sick leave with pay shall apply to employees holding temporary, emergency or seasonal positions.