2574 ARTICLE 64A

An. Code, 1924, sec...18. 1920, ch. 41, sec. 18. 1939, ch. 621.

22. Every classified employee shall receive as vacation in each calendar
year a leave of absence with pay for fifteen working days. In addition to
such annual vacation leave, any employee shall be entitled to sick leave
with pay for not in excess of fifteen working days in any calendar year;
provided, however, that if any employee in any calendar year uses less
than the full amount of sick leave allowable, two-thirds of such unused
leave shall be accumulated up to one hundred working days and shall be
available to such employee for sick leave at any time. Any employee using
three or more days sick leave in any calendar month shall present a certifi-
cate from a duly licensed physician before receiving any pay for the period
of such absence.

The Commissioner may by rule provide for granting leaves of absence
for longer periods with pay or with part pay to employees who may be dis-
abled either through injury or illness as a result of, or arising from their
respective employment; and shall make such rules as may be necessary to
carry out the provisions of this section.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 19. 1920, ch. 41, sec. 19.

23. The classification of positions to be made by the Commissioner
shall be completed, and the rules to be made by the Commissioner to carry
out the provisions of this Article shall be prepared and published by
January 1st, 1921, or as soon thereafter as the Commissioner finds prac-
ticable, after giving public notice of the same, pursuant to Section 11 of this
Article, and thereupon such classification and such rules shall become
immediately effective for all positions in the classified service and there-
after, no appointments, removals, promotions, lay-offs, reinstatements, sus-
pensions, leaves of absence or changes in class or compensation with re-
spect to any of said, positions shall be made otherwise than as provided by
this Article or the rules and classification made pursuant thereto by the
Commissioner.

All persons who, at the time this Article becomes applicable, hold offices
or places of employment which this Article provides shall be in the classi-
fied service, shall be included under the provisions of this Article, and
shall be deemed classified service: employees without original examinations.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 20. 1920, ch. 41, sec. 20.

24. Except in the case of temporary and emergency employees herein
provided for, no auditing or disbursing or other officer of the State shall
approve the payment of or be in any manner concerned in paying, auditing
or approving any salary, wage or other compensation for classified services
unless the person to whom such salary, wage or other compensation is to
be paid is a person in such classified service. Subject to the approval of
the Governor, the Commissioner may by rule prohibit the payment of any
salary, wage or other compensation to any employee holding a position
in the classified service unless a payroll or account for such salary, wage or
other compensation containing the names of the employees to be paid, a
statement of the amount to be paid each such employee and the services
on account of which the same is paid bearing the certificate of the Com-
missioner that the employees named in such payroll or account have been
appointed or employed and have held their positions during the period