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City may calla member who is injured on the job to perform temporary light duties, providing that work <br />is available and that the member has the skill and ability to perform the work. Members who are absent <br />due to a non -duty related sickness or injury may request a temporary light duty assignment. Providing <br />temporary light duty assignment is available, as determined by the Chief, and providing the member <br />possesses the skill, ability and physical stamina to perform the duties required and provides written <br />authorization to perform specific duties from their attending physician, the member may be given <br />consideration for such an assignment. Any member on light duty who is working forty (40) hours per <br />week will have any holiday time taken off equal to eight (8) hours. In the event a member is unable to <br />return to assume full duties as a firefighter for a period in excess of six (6) months, the member shall be <br />required to submit to the Human Resources Director a diagnosis and prognosis of the member's <br />condition, stating whether the member will or will not be able to resume the full duties of firefighter. <br />Each situation will be reviewed on a case -by -case basis in accordance with the ADA and ADAAA. <br />12.05 Should it be determined by proper medical authority that a member will not be able to return to <br />regular full duties as a firefighter, the City has the right to require that member to apply for disability <br />retirement. In the event of a difference of opinion as to the member's mental or physical status, regarding <br />their ability to perform their regular duties, between the member's physician and the City's physician, <br />the issue shall be submitted to a third physician specializing in occupational medicine, whose decision <br />shall be final and binding. Fees and expenses of the physician shall be borne equally by the parties. For <br />purposes of this section, an injury is defined as a traumatic damage to the body, of external origin, <br />unexpected and undesigned by the injured person. The aforementioned language is designed to comply <br />with the American Disability Act. <br />12.06 A member who reports absent from assigned duties due to sickness or injury shall not be <br />permitted to engage in any other outside employment during the period of their absence, nor may the <br />member return to such outside employment until returning to assigned duties or receiving permission <br />from the Assistant Chief. The Chief of the Division of Fire shall take such steps as necessary to prevent <br />the improper taking of sick leave. <br />12.07 Sick Time. <br />A. One (1) sick time day, either earned, taken, used or converted, shall be considered to be a <br />twenty four (24) hour period, unless the member is scheduled to work for a period less than <br />twenty four (24) hours. In such case, the sick time shall be equal to the scheduled hours and <br />no members shall be charged for sick time on days which the member is not scheduled for <br />duty. <br />B. All members shall earn sick time at the rate of 4.6 hours for every eighty (80) hours actually <br />worked exclusive of trades, and may accumulate such sick time to two thousand four <br />hundred (2400) hours. <br />12.08 Duty Exemption. <br />A. No member shall be charged for sick time or time off against their accumulated sick time <br />for any time taken, as a result of an injury or illness incurred while in the lawful performance <br />of their duties while fighting fires or other related duty activities. For purposes of this <br />11 <br />