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ORDINANCE NO. 2024-21 Page 5 in Dispatch. Where the response is prior to the beginning of an employee's assigned shift, the employee may sign a call -in sheet if the official call -in time is greater than or equal to thirty (30) minutes prior to the beginning of the employee's assigned shift time. If any assistance is rendered by the employee within the thirty (30) minute period prior to the beginning of the shift, the employee may sign in early for the shift and be compensated accordingly. For shift or general recalls, or any other emergency or manpower call -in lasting longer than two (2) hours, the Fire Chief may permit exceptions to the thirty (30) minute response time. m) Part-time employees shall have the option of banking up to forty (40) hours of regular or overtime hours. These hours may only be used when the employee takes a bereavement, sick or vacation day in place of a regularly scheduled work day. The employee shall have the option of cashing out any unused hours at the end of the calendar year. 153.07JURY DUTY, TRAVEL, CONFERENCES AND OTHER EXPENSES a) Internal Revenue Service permissible payment per mile is hereby allowed to reimburse employees who are required to make trips on behalf of the Municipality in their own automobiles, other than transportation to and from work, to be paid from the Treasury upon approval of the Mayor and the Director of Finance. This sum shall be paid to all employees, elected or appointed, full or part-time. If the trip replaces the employee's normal commute, reimbursable miles will be offset by the employee's normal commute. b) Any elected or appointed Municipal officer, deputy or assistant or an employee of the Municipality may attend, at the expense of the Municipality, any conference or convention relating to municipal affairs if authorized by the Mayor and the Department Head, and if the fiscal officer of the Municipality certifies that funds are appropriated and available for such purpose. Such person shall be reimbursed for meals and lodging. If the attendance at such conference does not require overnight accommodation, the employee will be reimbursed for meals up to fifteen dollars ($15.00) for lunch or dinner upon presentation of receipts to the Finance Director. If attendance at such conference requires overnight accommodation, the employee shall be provided a Fifty dollar ($50.00) per diem for each day of travel requiring overnight accommodation and a Fifteen dollar ($15.00) per diem for the day of travel returning home. c) All employees who are summoned to jury duty in the municipal, county or federal court system must advise their Department Head, immediately upon receiving same. If the employee is scheduled to work during said scheduled jury duty, the employee will be paid his or her regular compensation for that time period. An employee who finishes jury duty early , should report for duty for the balance of his or her regular shift. Similarly, an employee will work as much as his or her shift as possible before reporting for jury duty taking into account reasonable travel time. Notwithstanding the above, the Department Head shall determine, in each individual case, the time an employee shall be released from work to report for jury duty and the time an employee shall return to work after being released from jury duty, whether released and on call, or released after completion of full jury duty service.