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An employee traveling on Village business is delayed by business, transportation or any other unforeseen problem; and d. An employee is required to work overtime without advance notice and calls home to advise family or to arrange alternate child transportation or care arrangements. Should personal calls placed on Village cell phones result in additional costs to the Village -- such as roaming charges, long distance charges, directory assistance, web usage and download fees that do not qualify as legitimate business use -- those additional charges will be reimbursed by the employee making the calls within 30 days of the billing date of the charges. Further, any employee who exceeds their monthly-allotted minutes and/or package dollar amount may be subject to an audit of their cell phone use for the previous 12- month period. Notwithstanding, because it may be difficult to distinguish a personal phone call from a business phone call, each employee will be allocated $10.00 a month as representing charges for personal calls that cannot be identified as calls for business use. 6. Any intentional, deliberate misuse of a Village cell phone may result in any or all of 'che following: required maintenance of a telephone log which details all calls, the blockage of all incoming calls, and the loss of cell phone use and/or employee reimbursement of charges. Any personal calls made or received that result in an additional charge from the service provider will be reimbursed by the employee at the billed cost. The charge for out-of-network calls varies based on where you call or where the call originates from. D. Safetv. An employee issued a Village cell phone or using their personal cell phone for Village business must exercise the utmost in caution and common sense when utilizing the phone while in a Village vehicle. Whenever possible, drivers must use hands-free devices and pull to the side of the road in a safe manner when use of the cell phone is absolutely necessary, and particularly when dialing, accepting a call or checking messages. In no case should the phone be used during such maneuvers as backing, merging onto an interstate, while driving in heavy traffic in unfamiliar locales and the like. Necessary cell phone conversations while driving should be kept to a minimum and common sense should rule every instance of ceil phone use inside a moving vehicle. Caution must also be taken to ensure that cell phone usage by passengers does not distract the driver. -4-