HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Article 64A - Merit System

Section 37(a)(3)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1984 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 is entitled to sick leave with sick pay for not in
excess of 30 working days in any calendar year, and from and
after January 1, 1975, in addition to such 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 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, [or] podiatrist, CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER, OR
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE.

(iii) The Secretary of the Department of
Personnel may advance up to 60 days of sick leave to an employee
in any calendar year for a serious disability, ailment or
illness.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1985.

Approved May 21, 1985.