HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3137

An employee may be permanently separated from the
classified service through resignation or removal and may be
temporarily separated through lay-off, suspension, or leave
of absence. The [said] commission shall, by rule, prescribe
what shall constitute resignation, which rule shall be
subject to the approval of the state commissioner of
personnel. No employee may be permanently removed except
for cause and after an opportunity to be heard in his own
defense. Should the discharged employee desire, he may
appeal his own case to the state commissioner of personnel,
whose decision shall be final. No employee shall be removed
from the classified service because of religious or
political opinions or affiliations.

11-10. Same — Lay-offs and suspensions.

An employee in a position to be abolished,
discontinued, or vacated, because of change in departmental
organization, or through stoppage or lack of work, shall be
laid off and his name placed on the eligible list for the
class of position from which he is laid off and he shall be
re-employed in preference to any eligible person not an
employee of the commission on or after June 1, 1947, should
a vacancy occur, in his classified position. The [said]
commission may for disciplinary purposes suspend an employee
for not over thirty days. Each suspension shall be without
pay; provided, however, that no employee shall be suspended
for such disciplinary purposes over thirty days in any
calendar year.

11-11. Vacation and sick leave.

Every classified employee shall receive as vacation a
leave of absence with pay of such number of days as the
commission may specify by regulation, and the regulation may
be amended or revised by the commission from time to time.
Any regulation adopted hereunder shall provide for not less
than ten days nor more than thirty days in any year, and the
number of days specified shall be generally consistent with
the vacation leave schedules obtaining in other governmental
agencies in the area of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
District. In addition to such annual 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, such unused
leave shall be accumulative up to sixty working days or more
as the commission may prescribe by rule and shall be
available to such employee for sick leave at any time. Any
employee using three or more consecutive days' sick leave
shall present a certificate from a duly licensed physician
before receiving any pay for the period of such absence.
The [said] commission may, by rule, provide for granting
leaves of absence for longer periods with pay of with part
pay to employees who may be disabled 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