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ARTICLE 18 MATERNITY/SICK LEAVE WITH PAY 18.01 EffectiVe January 1, 2002, all employees.shall earn sick leave at the rate of 4.6 hours for every eighty .(80) hours paid and may accumulate Such sick leave to nine hundred and sixty (960) hours. Sick leave may be utilized on account of illness or injury incapacitating the employee from wOrking and requiring the employee's absence. 18.02 If the employee is absent from work for more than two (2) consecutive days, the employee must complete a Certificate of Illnes~ or Injury form and have their physician complete the attending physician's statement or attach an acceptable statement from the physician to the certificate that indicates that the employee is able to return to regularly aSsigned.duties. 18.03 Any abuse or patterned usc of sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for disciplinary action. 18.04 Probationary employees shall receive no sick leave during their probationary period, but will receive credit upon expiration of the probationary period for all time spent as a probationary employee. 18.05 In the event an employee becomes or continues to be incapacitated from work by illness or injury, after exhaustion of his acquired.Sick leave, the Director of Public Works may grant further sick leave, up to a total of ninety (90) calendar days, in addition to the Sick leave aS herein provided. 18.06 Sick Leave and Conversion Ae Employees may accumulate one hundred and twenty (120)days of unused sick leave and they shall be allowed to convert twenty five (25) percent of said sick leave into a lump sum cash payment, up to a maXimum of thirty (30) days of pay, upon retirement, resignation or death. This lump sum sick leave conversion payment will be made within thirty (30) days after retirement, resignation or death. Any employee, at the time of their retirement, .shall receive all terminal leave benefits, including vacation leave, unused holiday leave, accrued longevity or other unused compensatory time in one (1) lump sum payment. If an employee dies while in paid status, any terminal leave benefits to the employee',s credit, as set forth herein, shall be paid pursuant to any order issued by the Probate Court. 18.07 Conversion of Sick Leave Over One Hundred and Twenty (120) Days All employees in the Department of Public Works who have accumulated more than one hundred and twenty (120) days of sick leave, may convert on a three (3) to one (1) basis all days accumulated over one hundred and twenty (120) days into alump sum caSh payment at the end of each calendar Year. ARTICLE 19 SICK LEAVE WITHOUT .PAY 19.01 A full-time,.permanent hourly employee who has completed their probationary period shall be granted a leave of absence, without pay (excePt to the extent the employee may be entitled-to sick pay), for 16