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M.V. ORDINANCE NO. 90- 48 Page 13 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 a calendar year, has an accumulation of forty-five (45) days unused sick leave and who, during the same calendar year, has not used any of the sick days earned during that calendar year shall be compensated at the end of the calendar year the equivalent of five (5) days pay without having any days deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has used one (1) earned sick day during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for four (4) days 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 during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for three (3) days' 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 during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for one (1) days' 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 thirty (30) days 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. 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. H. Bereavement Leave In the event of death in the employee's immediate family, he shall be entitled to three (3) days off, or in the case of a member of the Fire Department under the rank of Chief, one (1) twenty-four (24) hour shift. The'"immediate family" shall include the spouse, children, parents, brothers, sisters, spouse's parents and grandparents. Should an exception to the aforementioned apply, such exception to be authorized by the Mayor. This leave shall not be charged to any other leave provision provided by the Ordinance.