HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 84-44 I
ORDINANCE NO.
ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 21,
ARTICLE I, SECTION 21-9 OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT; ESTAB-
LISHING PERSONAL LEAVE AND SHORT-TERM
DISABILITY LEAVE FOR CITY EMPLOYEES AND
ESTABLISHING APPLICABLE TERMS AND CONDITIONS;
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEAL.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT:
Section 1 .
That Chapter 21 , Article I , Section 21-9 of the Code of
Ordinances of the City of Beaumont, be, and the same is hereby ,
amended by repealing the existing Section 21-9 and enacting a new
Section 21-9 in lieu thereof , which said new Section 21-9 shall
read as follows:
Section 21-9. Personal Leave, Short-Term
Disability Leave.
(A) Each regular full-time employee of the
city shall earn personal leave which may be used for
illness or, upon the supervisor' s approval, for any
purpose. Each eligible employee shall earn 2. 15
hours of personal leave each biweekly pay period.
No employee who is paid for fewer than 80 hours in a
biweekly pay period shall earn personal leave for
that pay period.
Unused personal leave may be accumulated based
upon length of service. An employee with fewer
than eleven ( 11) years' service may accumulate a
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maximum of 160 hours personal leave. An employee
with eleven ( 11) or more years' service may
accumulate an additional 32 hours personal leave
for each year of service over ten ( 10) . An
employee may not accumulate more than 720 hours of
personal leave. An employee with more than one
year of service who leaves employment in good
standing shall be paid for all accumulated personal
leave upon termination.
(B) Each regular full-time employee of the
city shall earn short-term disability leave. Each
eligible employee shall earn 3.69 hours of short-
term disability leave each biweekly pay period. No
employee who is paid for fewer than 80 hours in a
biweekly pay period shall earn short-term
disability leave for that pay period. An employee
may use disability leave after being absent 80
hours for the same illness or disability.
Certification of illness or disability by the city
physician may be required. Accumulation of
short-term disability leave credits shall be
unlimited.
(C) Employees who have accumulated sick leave
under Section 21-9 of the Code of Ordinances as it
existed prior to the effective date of this
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ordinance shall retain such accumulated sick leave.
All such accumulated sick leave, not to exceed 120
hours, shall be credited to personal leave pursuant
to Section 21-9(A) of this ordinance. All such
accumulated sick leave in excess of 120 hours, but
not to exceed 360 hours, shall be credited to
short-term disability leave pursuant to Section
21-9(B) of this ordinance. All such accumulated
sick leave in excess of 480 hours shall be credited
as follows: 25% to personal leave pursuant to
Section 21-9(A) of this ordinance and 75% to
short-term disability leave pursuant to Section
21-9( B) of this ordinance; provided that the total
amount of such accumulated sick leave credited to
personal leave shall not exceed the total amount of
personal leave which may be accumulated pursuant to
Section 21-9(A) of this ordinance. If the amount
of such accumulated sick leave to be credited to
personal leave exceeds the amount of personal leave
which may be accumulated, the balance shall be
credited to short-term disability leave pursuant to
Section 21-9( B) of this ordinance.
City employees with fifteen ( 15) or more years
of creditable service who are sixty ( 60) years of
age or older, or who retire under the Texas
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Municipal Retirement System or the Beaumont Fire-
men' s Pension Fund, shall be paid upon termination
for all accumulated personal leave and for all sick
leave accumulated prior to April 1 , 1984, that is
credited to short-term disability leave pursuant to
this section; provided that the total payment shall
not exceed 720 hours.
(C) Upon death of any city employee eligible
for payment of accumulated personal leave or
accumulated sick leave, the employee' s estate shall
be paid a sum equal to the amount which the
employee would have been paid if the employment had
terminated on the date of death.
Section 2.
This ordinance shall be effective on and after April 1 ,
1984.
Section 3 .
That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are repealed to the extent of the conflict only.
Section 4 .
That if any section, subsection, sentence, clause or
phrase of this ordinance or the application of same to a
particular set of persons or circumstances should for any reason
be held to be invalid, such invalidity shall in no wise affect the
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remaining portions of this ordinance, and to such end the
provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Beaumont this
the c2oxk day of a.4�e� 1984.
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Mayor -
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