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Employer may require such proof of illness, injury or death as may be satisfactory to him, or may require the emptoyee to be examined by a medical doctor. In any event, an employee absent for more than three (3) consecutive working days must provide the NOMBL medical form statement to be eiigible for paid sick leave. Section 18.08. If an employee fails to submit satisfactory proof of illness, injury or death upon request, or in the event that upon such proof as is submitted on the NOMBL medical form statement or upon the report of a medical examination, the Employer finds there is not evidence of illness or injury sufficient to justify the employee's absence, sick leave may be considered an unauthorized leave, shall be without pay, and may be the cause for disciplinary action. Section 18.09. The Employer may require an employee who has been absent due to a serious illness or injury such as a heart attack, lost limb or sight, physical or mental disability, surgery, prior to and as a condition of his return to worfc to be examined by a medical doctor or occupational health facility, designated and paid for by the Employer to establish that he is physically abie to perform his normal work duties or that his return to duty will not jeopardize the health and safety of others. Section 18.10. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth above, in the event the Employer requests that the employee be examined by a medicai doctor or occupational health facility, this second opinion may be obtained from a State of Ohio licensed doctor and board- certified in the same azea or medicine as that of the employee's attending physician. If any delay in the employee's return to work is caused by the Employer or the doctor or facility designated by the Employer, then the employee sha(1 continue to be paid sick leave; provided he has a sick leave baIance. . Section 18.11. Any employee who transfers from this department to another department of the Emptoyer shall be allowed to transfer his accumulated sick leave to the new department. Section 18.12. Any full-time employee of the Employer who had accumulated sick leave earned from being employed by the State of Ohio or any other political subdivision of the State of Ohio and has become employed full-time by the Employer within ten (10) years after his termination from such other public employer shall be allowed to transfer said accumulation to his sick leave accumulation with the Employer, provided that for employees hired full-time after August l, 1989, such sick leave accumulation shall be limited to a maximum of six hundred (600) hours and was not sunendered to the former employee for cash payment. In order to transfer this leave, the employee must submit a certification of such time by this previous employer to the City's Finance Department. Section 18.13. At the time of death, disability retirement or retirement; from active service with the Employer and provided he/she has a minimum of five (5) years or more of continuous service with the Employer, an emp(oyee may elect to be paid, for one-half (1/2) the value of his accrued but unused sick leave credit, based upon the following: Retired after August 1, 1993: 500 hours, maximum payment. Such payment shall be made onty for those sick hours earned by the employee while employed by the emp[oyer. Sick pay shalt be based on the employee's rate of pay at the time of conversion. Payment for sick leave, on this basis shall be considered to eliminate all sick leave credit accrued by the employee. Such payment shall be made only once to an employee. 14