338 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 88

[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,

providing, 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. The term "years of service, " as
used herein shall include any previous continuous State service in
excess of one year as an unclassified employee.

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, how-
ever, 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 em-
ployee 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.

Such annual vacation leave credits shall accrue to the employee
after his first six months of State service, on a prorata basis, and
shall be available to him for such purpose at any time thereafter, with
the approval of the head of the department. Sick leave credits shall
accrue from the beginning of the employee's State service, on a pro-
rata basis, and shall be available to him for such purpose as earned,
providing that whenever the employee must be absent from work
because of a death in his immediate family, such absence may be
charged against either earned annual vacation or earned sick leave, at
the option of the employee.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1962.

Approved March 23, 1962.

CHAPTER 88
(House Bill 86)

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State debt in the aggregate
amount of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500, 000), for the

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