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ARTICLE 13 CLOTHING ALLOWANCE 13.0 1 Effective January l, 2008, all full-time bargaining unit meinbers shall receive an annual clothing allowance of seven hundred twenty-fve dollars ($725.00), payable with the first regular pay check in January for the duration of this Agreement. (Clothing allowance shall be pro-rated per month in the enlployee's final year of employment.) ARTICLE 14 SICK LEAVE 14.01 Sick leave shall be accumulated at the rate of four and six-tenths (4.6) hours for every eighty (80) hours paid, excluding overtime and may accumulate such sick leave to an unlimited amount. 14.02 In the event that an employee should be injured while in the line of duty due to a sudden and accidental occurrence, and such injury has so incapacitated said einployee is temporarily unable to work, then the Director of Public Safety, after determining that said injury is work- related and is of a temporary nature, may authorize ninety (90) days sick leave. If after such ninety (90) day sick leave period, said employee is still temporarily incapacitated, then the Director of Public Safety shall recommend to Council whether or not to continue said salary. Council shall forthwith review the matter aiid by majority vote, determine whether the employee shall continue to receive his full salary during recuperation. While off oil line of duty sick leave, if in ihe opinion of the employee's doctar and a doctor chosen by the Employer indicates the employee is capable of returning to work in a restricted duty position, the employee will be offered a restricted duty position. If the employee refuses the position, the use of authorized line of duty sick leave would terminate, and the employee would have to use their accumulated sick leave. For the purpose of this paragraph, a sudden and accidental iiljury shall iilclude such incidents as an automobile accident, assault, gun shot wound and the like. It may not be eonsidered as sudden and accidental if an injury or incapacitation results froin lifting, slipping, tripping or falling. 14.03 Any employee who qualifies foi° benefits under this Section shall be required to pay over to the Employer any amount received from the Bureau of Workers Compensation as supplemental wages. Further, if at any time the Employer determines, on the basis of inedical evidence, that employee is permanently disabled and will no longer be able to carry on his duties, then the Employer may tei-niinate payments and insist that employee go on a pension program. 14.04 Any einployee who qualifies for the benefits under this Section, shall iiot have his accumulated sick time reduced because of a qualified accidental injury which occurred while in tlle liiie of duty. 14.05 If an e1liployee is absent oi1 sick leave for more than three (3) consecutive work days, the Emp]oyer shall require the einployee to present a plrysician's report attesting ro the employee's iilcapacity and that the employee was under the doctor's care and is able to return to work. The