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ORDINANCE NO. 2003-35 PAGE 7 (k) Whenever different or additional uniform items are required due to the promotion of a full- time member of the Police or Fire Department, the Municipality shall purchase those items for which receipted bills are presented together with an approval for payment from the Chief of the Depa.rtment. (1) There shall be no uniform allowance or maintenance for part-time police dispatchers, police secretaries, or Building and Service or Fire secretaries and/or clerk receptionists. 153.09 SICK LEAVE. (a) Sick leave shall be defined as an absence with pay necessitated by: 1. Illness or injury to the employee. 2. Exposure by the employee to a contagiaus disease communicable to othEr employees; or 3. Illness, injury, or death in the employee's immediate family. (b) All permanent full-time employees shall accumulate sick leave at the rate of four and six- tenths (4.6) hours for every eighty (80) hour base pay period submitted and approved, and may accumulate such sick leave to an unlimited amount. However, at no time shall the number of sick leave hours accumulated exceed one hundred twenty (120) hours per year. (c) Employees covered under this section shall notify the employer of such absence and the reason therefore no later than one (1) hour after the start of the work day for which the employee is scheduled to report with the exception of safety personnel who shall report by their respective departmental rules and regulations. Before an absence may be charged against accumulated sick leave, the affected employee's department head, or Mayor in the case of a department head, may require proof of illness, injury, or death in the family as may be satisfactory to him, or may require the employee to be examined by a physician designated by and paid for by the employer. In any event, an employee absent for more than two (2) work days must supply a physician's report to be eligible for paid sick leave, if requested by that employee's department head. (d) If the employee fails to submit adequate proof of illness, injury, or death in the family, or in the event that upon such proof as is submitted or upon the request of inedical examination, the department head finds there is not satisfactory evidence of illness, or death in the family sufficient to justify the employee's absence, such leave may be considered an unauthorized absence and shall be without pay. (e) Any abuse or patterned use of sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for disciplinary action including but not limited to reprimand, suspension and/or discharge. (f) The department head may require an employee who has been absent due to a personal illness or injury, prior to and as a condition of return to work, to be examined by a physician designated and paid for by the employer, to establish that such employee is not disabled from the performance of his duties and that his or her retum to work will not jeopardize the health and safety of other employees. Paee 7 of21