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(4-6/10) hours with pay, except in the Fire Department where they shall earn fifteen (15) sick leave tours (1 tour = 24 hours) per year. Employees may use sick leave with the approval of their department heads for absence due to illness, injury, exposure to contagious disease and illness in the immediate family. The head of each department shall require their respective employees to furnish a written signed certificate to justify the use of any sick leave taken. At the discretion of the department head, or anytime an absence due to illnes exceeds three (3) days, or three (3) tours in the case of fire fighters, a statement certifying the nature of the illness from a licensed physician shall be required to justify the use of sick leave. Falsification of either a written statement or a physician's certificate shall be grounds for disciplinary action including dismissal. No sick leave may be granted upon or after retirement or termination of employment. 2. Any permanent full-time employee who, at the end of their first full calendar year of service to Mayfield Village, has an accumulation of forty- five (45) days, or tours in the case of fire fighters, unused sick leave and who, during the same calendar year, has not used any of the sick days earned during that year shall be compensated at the end of the calendar year the equivalent of five (5) days, or five (5) tours in the case of fire fighters, pay without having any days deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave. Sick leave accumulation lawfully transferred from prior public employees shall be included for purposes of this section. If under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has used one (1) earned sick day, or tour, during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for four (4) days, or tours, pay without having any of said days deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has used two (2) earned sick days, or tours, during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for three (3) days, or tours, pay without having any of said days deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has used four (4) earned sick days, our tours, during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for one (1) day, or tour, pay without having any of said days deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave. 3. Upon retirement, all full-time employees shall be entitled to receive credit and payment for accumulated but unused sick leave not to exceed two hundred forty (240) hours, provided that they have been employed by the Village for ten (10) years or more. For purposes of this Section, an employee shall be considered to have retired when such employee takes action that is inconsistent with any reasonable intent to continue employment with the Municipality. 4. (a) If a full-time employee is scheduled to work on a holiday enumerated in Section 6(a), and cannot work due to illness, that day shall be considered a holiday day off and shall not be counted or compensated as a sick day. (b) "Hours of service" as used in this section, includes overtime, vacations, holidays, sick leave and all other approved and paid leaves of absent from service. "Hours of service" does not include the additional compensation time allowed an employee who works a holiday or has their normal day off on a holiday. 11