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tours of duty or forty (40) hour Employee who is sick or disabled for five (5) consecutive working days may be required to secure and submit a physician's release certifying that they are fit to return to work. This release must be submitted to the Employee's Officer in Charge before the Employee will be permitted to return to work. 15.8 Employees shall be permitted to contribute sick leave hours to a sick leave bank for use by any employee who has exhausted all of his own sick leave under the following conditions: A. The Sick Leave bank shall have a maximum balance of fifteen hundred (1500) hours. B. Employees that have suffered any illness or injury in the scope of their employment and have exhausted the benefits of Article XVII or were not covered by the provisions of Article XVII may draw from the sick leave bank after their own sick leave bank has been exhausted. C. Employees that have suffered any illness or injury to themselves or their immediate family outside of the scope of their employment may draw from the sick leave bank only after the employee has exhausted all of their own sick leave bank, vacation and nolidays. D. Any employee that contributes sick leave hours to the sick leave bank shall not lose any sick leave bonus as granted by section.15.2. E. No employee shall be germitted to contribute mare then one hundred (100) hours duxing his terrn of employment. F. Employees who have used hours from the sick leave bank shall be required to repay the sick leave bank one (1) hour for every two (2) hours used. Employees shall be required to repay a minimum of two (2) hours per pay period. Should an emptoyee not be able to repay the sick leave bank prior to his separation from service then t.he sick leave bank shall be credited from his separation check. Such requirement of repayment nzay be waived by a majority vote of the Association's Executive Board of Local 1267, the Chief and Assistant Chief. 15.9 The Ernployer may require any Employee requesting paid sick leave to furnish substantiating evidence or a statement from his/her attending physician certifying that absence from work was required due to one of the reasons set forth in 15.5. Such certification must be presented whenever sick leave is requested for more than two (2) consecutive tours of duty for Employees who work an average of 50.4 hours per week ancl for five (5) consecutive working days for Employees on a forty (40) hour work week. ARTICLE XVI LEAVE OF ABSENCE 16.1 In addition to medical leaves to which they may be entitled to under the Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), employees may be entitled to take a personal leave of absence with the 18 _--i