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ORDINANCE NO. 79-6-1581
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUB -SECTION (a) of SECTION 2-21 "VACATION
LEAVE GENERALLY" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH,
KENTUCKY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. That Sub -section (a) of Section 2-21 "Vacation leave generally"
of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Paducah, Kentucky, be amended and reordained
so that said sub -section as amended and reordained shall hereafter read as follows:
"Sec. 2-21. Vacation leave generally.
(a) All present employees shall continue to receive vacation at the rate
of one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days of vacation for each month of employment with
the city except for those employees who have begun their fifteenth year of service
with the city who shall receive vacation at the increased rate as hereinafter set forth.
Except for members of the Police and Fire Departments, all employees employed after
the date of March 31, 1976, shall receive vacation time as follows: During the first
year of employment, vacation time shall accrue at the rate of one=half (1/2) day per
month for a total of six days. Between the beginning of the second and the beginning
of the fifth year of employment, employees shall accrue vacation at the rate of three-
fourths (3/4) day per month for a total of nine days per year. From the beginning of
the. fifth year to the beginning of the tenth year of employment, the accrual rate shall
be one (1) day per month for a total of twelve days per year. Between the beginning
of the: tenth -year- and the beginning of the fifteenth year of service, the accrual rate
shall be one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days per month for a total of fifteen days per year.
- Betw1.een the_ _fifteenth year and the beginning of the twentieth year of service, the
accrual rate shall be one and one-half (1-1/2) days per month for a total of eighteen
days vacation per year. From the twentieth year through the twenty-fifth year of
service, the accrual rate of vacation will be, one and three-fourths (1-3/4) days per
month for a total of twenty-one days per year. For all employees with more than
twenty-five years of service, the accrual rate of vacation shall be two days per month
for a total of twenty-four days per year. An employee may accumulate up to a
maximum of forty (40) days of vacation at any one time. After obtaining vacation
eligibility, an employee may take vacation as may be reasonably scheduled with his de-
partment head as hereinafter set forth in sub -section (g) , or in the case of a depart -
ment head, as may be scheduled with the City Manager. A month in which a salaried
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employee is paid for fifteen (15) days or more and a daily or hourly wage employee
is paid for twelve (12) days or more shall be considered as a month of service.
Members „of the .police department .that have, successfully completed fifteen
(15) years of continuous service- with the department shall thereafter accrue vacation
at the rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) days of vacation for each month of employment
with the city,_, and members of said department that have successfully, completed thirty
years of continuous service with the department shall thereafter, accrue vacation __at,_the
rate of one and three-fourths (1-3/4) days vacation for each month :of, employment with
the city, and each of said group of -employees may accrue up to ,a maximum of forty (40)
days of vacation at any one time. Members of the fire department that have successfully
completed twenty years of continuous service with .the department shall _ thereafter accrue
vacation at the rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) days of vacation for each month of em-
ployment with the city, and members of said department that have successfully completed
twenty-five years of continuous service with the department shall thereafter accrue vaca-
tion at the rate of one and three-fourths (1-3/4) days of vacation for each month of em-
ployment with the city, and each may accrue -up to a maximum of forty (40) days of
vacation at any one time" .
SECTION 2. This ordinance amends Section 1 of Ordinance No. 78-5-1562,
adopted May 23, 1978. .
SECTION 3. This ordinance , shall be in full force. and , effect on July 3,, 1978.
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