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11 0 - 6AOK w?47 _ Section 7. Sick Leave. (a) Sick Leave '.s a. Privilege. Sick :.'cave with pay is not a right which an employee may demand- but a privilege gra.,ted by the governmental unit. Notification of the desire to take sir-:k leave 91-.o:;7d be submitted to the employee's department head prior to the leave cr not later than two hours after the beginning of the scheduled work day. (b) Sick Leave Earned. Each full-time employee shall earn sick leave at the rate of one (1) working day per full calendar month of service. (c) Gra:.ting of Sick-Lave. An employee may be granted sick leave from work with pay for any earned aceumuli ted sick leave if his absence is due to personal sickness, bodily injury, quarantine, required physical or dental exami- nations or treatment, exposure to a contagious disease when continued work might jeopardize the health of others, cr° the funeral of a member of the employee's immediate family. (d) Physican's Certificate. Department heads may require a Physician's certificate as to the nature of the illness and as to the employee's physical capacity to resume his duties for each occasion on which an employee uses sick leave. The department head shall be responsible for the application of this provision to the end that there will be no abuse of sick leave privileges. (e) Sick Leave Accumulation. Sick Leave shall be cumulative up to six calendar months.. Section 6. Sickness or DisabilitZ_0_v&red by Workman's Compensation. An employee absent from duty because of sickness or disability covered by the Work- men's Compensation laws shall be eligible for the following benefits: (1) Such employee shall receiva his full salary for the first sixty working days of sickness or disability without charge to vacation or sick leave, provided that any payment which the employee receives for this period under Page seventeen