WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 427
(ii) on the exterior, where appropriate, of the historic structures.

(b) The easement must be in form and substance acceptable to the Trust
and the extent of the interest to be encumbered must be acceptable to the Trust.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1990.

Approved May 29, 1990.

CHAPTER 427
(Senate Bill 45)

AN ACT concerning

Merit System - Sick Leave - Authorization

FOR the purpose of providing that a licensed certified social worker-clinical may issue
the certificate required from a State employee who uses three or more consecutive
working days sick leave in any 30-day period for Q mentol or emotional disorder.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 64A - Merit System
Section 37(a)(3)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1988 Replacement Volume and 1989 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 64A - Merit System

37.

(a) (3) (i) In addition to annual vacation leave, any employee shall be
entitled to sick leave with sick pay for not in excess of 15 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, such unused leave shall be accumulated and shall be
available to such employee for sick leave at any time. Nothing in this section may cause
an employee to lose any sick leave accumulated as of December 31, 1974.

(ii) Sick leave may be taken only as authorized by this section
because of illness, accident disability or, as authorized in this subsection, because of a
death or illness in the immediate family of the employee. Advanced sick leave or
extended sick leave may not be taken because of death or illness in the immediate
family of the employee. Before receiving any sick pay for the period of absence, an
employee using three or more consecutive working days sick leave in any 30-day period
shall present an original certificate signed personally by an accredited Christian Science
practitioner or by any of the following licensed or certified medical providers: physician,
physical therapist, clinical psychologist, dentist, oral surgeon, chiropractor, podiatrist,
certified nurse practitioner, [or] certified nurse midwife, OR, IF THE SICK LEAVE IS

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