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Section 18.14. Sick leave can be used for the following reasons: ? :. (a) Sickness of the employee; (b) Injury to the employee; (c) Exposure to contagious disease where quarantined by the Board of Health; (d) Emergency/non-routine medical, dental surgery or optical surgery of the employee; and (e) Sickness or emergency medical treatment of the employee's "immediate family" shall be interpreted as meaning parents, pazents of spouse, spouse, and children of the employee, regardless of place of residence, as well as other relatives living in the employee's home. The maximum sick leave which may be granted under, this paragraph for family illness may be no more than eighty (80) hours per year for employees who have been with the City more than twelve (12) months. Departrnent heads may require a satisfactory medical certificate before paying any employee under this paragraph. Falsification of either a written, signed statement or a medical certificate shall be grounds for discipiinary action including dismissal. (f) Sick leave may be used to attend the funerai of a half-brother, half-sister, brother-in-law or sister-in-Iaw, for a maximum of three (3) days. Section 18.15. Any abuse of sick leave or the patterned use af sick teave sha11 be just and sufficient cause for disciptine, including discharge, as may be determined by the Employer. (Examp[e: Mondays, Fridays, day after payday, etc.) Section 18.16. Any employee scheduied to work on a holiday who reports sick shall be charged t?;a sick leave for that holiday, provided the proper NOMBL medical form has been completed and shall forfeit his right to receive the holiday pay. If the employee has no sick leave or does not have the proper NOMBL medical form completed, he shall receive no pay for that day. ARTICLE XIX LEAVES OF ABSENCE & FUNERAL LEAVES Section 19.01. All employees shall be entitled to take a personal leave of absence with the approval of the Service Director and under the terms and conditions as he sets forth, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. Any leave of absence for persona[ reasons, shatl not, however, exceed a ninety (90) day period. Said employee in order to maintain any and all benefits which are paid by the City shall be required to pay the Finance Director, the cost of said benefits in advance on a monthly basis. The maximum permissibie leave of absence for any reason shal( be ninety (90) days. (a) Special circumstances may occur for an emptoyee to make application to the Service Director for a leave of absence; whereby this leave will not effect the employee's seniority as stated in Section 14.01. This situation will not be precedent setting for past or future leave of absence requests granted by the city. Section 19.02. Any empioyee who is requred to be away from work due to sickness shall be ? entit(ed to use up sick leave which has been accumulated, according to the rates as specified in Sec. 18.05, and Sec. 18.06. When an employee has exhausted all accumulated sick leave, then that employee shall be entitled to a sickness leave of absence which shall not exceed ninety (90) 15