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ORDINANCE NO. 2003-35-PAGE 3 153.06 OVERTIME. (a) Except for those employees not covered by the overtime provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act, or the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, all full-time employees and all eligible part-time employees shall be compensated at the rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) times the employees regular hourly rate for that time actually worked in excess of forty (40) hours during a seven (7) day work week when approved by that employee's department head for employees who are normally scheduled to work a forty (40) hour week. Part-time firefighters shall be compensated at the rate of one and one-half (1 '/2) times the employee's regular hourly rate for time actually worked in excess of one hundred fifty-nine (159) hours in a twenty-one (21) day work period. (b) All overtime shall be approved in advance by the Mayor unless there exists an emergency that threatens the health, safety or welfare of the Municipality. (c) If an employee is scheduled for training or seminars while on vacation or holiday, the employee shall be paid regular time and restored that vacation or holiday time lost. No overtime will be paid in this situation. (d) Time changes relevant to day light savings shall not entitle the Village to dock pay nor to pay additional time on those days, as same will balance out. (e) All full-time employees shall, at their election, be able to accrue compensatory time at one and one-half (1-1/2) times the number of overtime hours worked in lieu of cash payment, up to a maximum of one hundred twenty (120) hours. In the event an employee works overtime when his "compensatory time bank" is at one hundred and twenty (120) hours, he or she shall be paid cash for such overtime. (f) Holidays, compensatory time, free personal days and vacation time, shall be considered time actually worked. Sick Leave and Bereavement Leave will not be considered time actually worked for the purposes of calculating overtime. (g) Those full-time employees called to work on an emergency basis outside of their normal working hours shall be paid at their regular hourly rate and shall be paid for a minimum of two (2) hours. In the event that the hours worked on an emergency basis as provided in this subsection are subject to the overtime provisions of subsection (a) hereof, then such employees shall be paid at one and one-half (1-1/2) times their regular hourly rate for a minimum of two (2) hours and thereafter in increments of fifteen (15) minutes. (h) Full-time department heads, the Police Chief and the Fire Chief shall be entitled to compensatory time of one (1) hour for each hour actually worked in excess of forty (40) hours in a seven (7) day work period. The compensatory time authorized herein may be accumulated to a maximum total of one hundred twenty (120) hours. Compensatory time used from this accumulation shall only be used with the approval of the Mayor. The overtime provisions of this subsection are not required by the Fair Labor Standards Act and are accorded to the employees covered by this subsection at the sole discretion of the Municipality with the Municipality