Section 36-26-35Annual leave.
(a) All persons who are regularly employed by the state and who are subject to the provisions of the state Merit System, and all legislative personnel, officers and employees, including but not limited to Legislative Reference Service personnel, whether subject to the state Merit System or not, shall be entitled to accumulate annual leave on the basis of biweekly pay periods as follows:
| Employee's total service with: | Accumulation of leave per pay period | Annual Accumulation |
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| Fewer than five years' service | 4 hours | 13 days | | 5 but less than 10 years' service | 5 hours | 16 days 2 hours | | 10 but less than 15 years' service | 6 hours | 19 days 4 hours | | 15 but less than 20 years' service | 7 hours | 22 days 6 hours | | 20 but less than 25 years' service | 8 hours | 26 days | | 25 years of service or more | 9 hours | 29 days 2 hours |
(b) Maximum accrued leave after 25 years of service shall be limited to 29 1/4 days per year, and the maximum number of days of annual leave which may be carried over at the end of each year shall be limited to 60 days.
(c) Any law enforcement officer in the Department of Public Safety shall be entitled to receive payment for any accrued and unused annual leave days in excess of 60 days, up to a maximum of 10 days per year. Payment shall be calculated using the officer's regular rate of pay.
(Acts 1973, No. 752, p. 1125, §1; Acts 1980, No. 80-752, p. 1556, § 1; Acts 1997, No. 97-716, p. 1486, §1.)
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