§ 71-13. Disability leave.

A. 

Whenever an employee in the classified civil service is disabled, as a result of illness or injury entitling said employee to workmen's compensation benefits, he shall be entitled to a leave of absence with pay to be known as "SAI Leave," as differentiated from sick leave, for a period of time coextensive with the period of time for which workmen's compensation temporary disability benefits are payable to said employee. In the event the employee's department head cannot initially determine whether to charge the employee with sick leave or SAI leave, he shall charge said employee with SAI leave. However, such employee's records shall be adjusted, if indicated, upon the determination of the City's workmen's compensation insurance carrier and no further adjustment to such records shall be made until the workmen's compensation proceedings, if any, including all appeals, shall have been concluded. The result of such proceedings shall be binding upon the City and the employee.

B. 

To be entitled to SAI leave, the employee shall submit to the department head, as soon after his leave commences as is practicable, a certificate from a licensed physician setting forth that such employee is unfit for the performance of his duties, the physician's estimate of said period of unfitness, together with a history of the injury or illness, and the medical reasons therefor. At the end of such estimated period or at any time prior or subsequent thereto, the employee's department head or a member of the City's governing body may require that the employee be examined by a licensed physician designated by City Council for that purpose, which physician may but need not be the employee's treating physician. Such leave, whether alternately determined to be sick leave or SAI leave, shall terminate upon a certificate from a licensed physician that said employee is fit for the performance of his duties.

C. 

Anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, no period of SAI leave shall extend beyond a period of one year or beyond the period of time in which workmen's compensation temporary disability payments are authorized pursuant to law. Any temporary disability workmen's compensation payment made to or received by or on behalf of such employee while such employee is on SAI leave shall be deducted from the amount carried on the payroll for such employee or assigned to the City of North Wildwood by the insurance carrier or the employee.