Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                    321

Less than 1 year of service — 5 working days
1 to less than 5 years of service — 10 working days
5 to less than 25 years of service — 15 working days
25 years of service and more — 20 working days,
provided, however, that every classified State employee on January
1, 1957, who as of that date shall have less than five (5) years of
service shall be entitled to receive, as vacation in each calendar
year until his period of service reaches 25 years, a leave of absence
with pay of fifteen (15) working days.

Any employee using less than full vacation leave allowable begin-
ning January 1, 1942 shall be entitled to have such unused leave
accumulated up to thirty working days, which shall be available to
such employee for vacation leave at any time, with the approval of
the head of the department. In addition to such annual vacation
leave, any employee shall be entitled to sick leave with pay for not
in excess of thirty 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 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 consecutive days sick leave in any thirty day period
shall present a certificate from a duly licensed physician before
receiving any pay for the period of such absence.

76. (a) [Every] Except as otherwise provided in this section*
every State employee except per diem and hourly employees who
works in excess of forty-four (44) hours in any week shall receive
extra compensation for such hours worked in excess of that time.
The amount of compensation for such excess shall be computed by
dividing the weekly compensation by forty-four and multiplying the
resulting quotient by the number of hours in excess of said forty-
four hours.

(b)  For those State employees who work in or for the several
State Hospitals, mental institutions and penal or custodial institu-
tions, or whose work in or for any other department, board, bureau,
commission or agency requires that they be on "shift duty" to pro-
vide a continuous 24 hour a day seven day a week schedule of opera-
tion, the work week shall be set at forty (40) hours. Any such em-
ployee who works in excess of forty (40) hours in any week shall
receive compensation for such hours worked in excess of that time.
The amount of compensation for such excess shall be computed by
dividing the weekly compensation by forty and multiplying the result-
ing quotient by the number of hours worked in excess of forty hours.

(c)  The executive head of every department, bureau, board, com-
mission or other agency of the State, with the approval of the State
Commissioner of Personnel, is authorized and empowered to desig-
nate those supervisory employees within the respective department,
bureau, board, commission or other agency who shall not be subject
to the provisions of either a forty hour-week or a forty-four hour-
week. The State Commissioner of Personnel is authorized to adopt
and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to prevent an abuse
of this section by the granting of unnecessary and unwarranted
overtime.

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