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ORDINANCE NO. 1 ( q
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS, PROVIDING A
POLICY FOR SICK LEAVE AND ANNUAL LEAVE, PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE,
REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, there is no established policy governing sick leave,
annual leave and vacations for certain employees of the City of
Jacksonville, Arkansas; and
WHEREAS, the health, welfare and morale of said City employees
has been adversely affected by said situation;
NOW, THEREFORE, HE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF JACK-
SONVILLE, ARKANSAS, that:
Section 1. That from and after the passage and approval of
this ordinance, the responsibility for management of leave privi-
leges and enforcement of leave regulations for employees of the
City of Jacksonville has been delegated as follows:
A. The Mayor is responsible for administration of the
leave regulations and leave policies and for advising department
heads, supervisors and other employees in leave matters.
B. The department heads are responsible for establish-
ing vacation schedules, for approving applications for all types
of leave, and for determining the type of leave which shall be
granted in accordance with the leave regulations.
C. All leave records shall be kept and maintained in
the office of the Mayor and shall reflect actual accrued annual
and sick leave and the Mayor's office shall properly record on
each employee's leave record the type of leave granted or used
by every employee, and this leave shall be charged immediately
on the leave record card of each employee upon the receipt of the
leave application executed by the City employee and approved by
the department head.
Section 2. All permanent City employees hired after February
1, 1967, shall accrue sick leave with pay at the rate of one 8 -hour
work day per each calendar month of continuous employment. Any
person being employed by the City prior to February 1, 1967, shall
have entered on his record an accrued amount of sick leave equal
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to one 8-hour day for each calendar month of continuous employ-
ment, but said entry shall not exceed sixty (60) working days.
No employee shall be permitted to use sick leave benefits
until said employee shall have had three (3) months of continuous
employment. Sick leave shall accrue, if not used, to a maximum
of ninety (90) working days. Sick leave shall be used for illness
of the employee only, and any employee absent from work for any
other reason shall have this lost time deducted from his regular
pay or applied to his annual leave.
Any employee failing to report to work because of illness
shall notify his immediate supervisor or department head. Said
supervisor or department head shall notify the Mayor's office of
each day of absence by the employee and the reason for said ab-
sence. Any employee being absent from work because of illness
three (3) consecutive days shall submit a statement from his doc-
tor to his department head. on the third day of said absence to
support sick leave application.
Section 3. All permanent employees shall be entitled to five
(5) regular working days of annual leave with pay after one (1)
year of continuous employment. All permanent employees shall be
entitled to ten (10) regular working days of annual leave with
pay after two (2) years of continuous employment. No employee
shall be entitled to more than ten (10) regular working days of
annual leave regardless of his length of employment. All employees
shall notify their department head between January 1st and March
31st of each year of the date that they wish to take their annual
leave.
Section 4. Sick leave and annual leave shall apply to perma-
nent employees only, and shall not apply to part -time or temporary
employees or to elected officials.
Section 5. In addition to the foregoing, the City of Jack-
sonville will observe the following legal holidays:
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New Year's Day January 1
Washington's Birthday February 22 b
Memorial Day May 30
Independence Day July 4
Labor Day 1st Monday in September
Thanksgiving Day (2 days) 4th Thursday Sc. Friday in November
Christmas Day December 25
Section 6. The provisions of this Ordinance are intended to
be separate and severable, and the holding of any portion hereof
to be invalid, shall not affect the other portions.
Section 7. All ordinances inconsistent with the provisions
of this Ordinance shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.
Section $. That this Ordinance being necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health, safety, welfare and morale
of the citizens of the City of Jacksonville, Arkansas, an emergency
is hereby declared to exist and this Ordinance shall have full
force and effect .immediately after its passage.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this o ( day i4r / • , 1967.
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