Town of Chesapeake Beach, MD Article XV Annual Leave

§ 50-62 Eligibility.

Annual leave is paid leave granted to eligible employees for their personal use. Merit and appointed employees are eligible for annual leave in accordance with the terms of this Article XV. Contractual employees are eligible for annual leave only if such leave is granted by an express term of their employment contract.

§ 50-63 Accrual.

A. Eligible full-time employees shall earn annual leave in proportion to hours paid, exclusive of overtime, at the following rates:

	Years of Service	Days Per Fiscal Year
	0 through 2	13
	3 through 14	20
	15 or more	26

B. For purposes of this article, the number of hours in an earned annual leave day for full-time employees shall be determined by dividing the number of hours in the standard equivalent full-time pay period by 10. The numbers of years of service shall be the number of years the employee has been employed by the Town, measured as of the beginning of the fiscal year.

C. Employees who become nonprobationary or appointed employees during any given fiscal year shall be entitled to that fraction of the number of days of leave provided for under Subsection A above, which represents the pro-rata portion of the remaining fiscal year multiplied by that number.

§ 50-64 Carryover.

Employees may carry over into a new year a maximum of 30 days (total) of annual leave. This carryover shall be accomplished effective the first day of the fiscal year. Any excess annual leave over this amount is lost. Upon separation from Town service for disability or nondisciplinary reasons, when employees give proper notice, nonprobationary employees shall be paid for their accrued annual leave in accordance with Article IX, Separation of Employees, of this Division A. This payment shall be withheld for employees who do not give proper notice unless the Mayor, at his sole and absolute discretion, authorizes such a payment. Any such authorization by the Mayor shall be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and in no event shall any such authorization establish a precedent or constitute a policy.

§ 50-65 Procedures.

Employees must receive prior approval from their supervisor before using their leave. Leave is not a right but a privilege, and will be approved or disapproved based upon the operations and work load of the department, the employee's leave record, and in consideration of the leave requests from other employees. If the Town has not acted on a request in advance of the date the leave is to begin, the failure to act does not constitute approval. The employee must use other approved leave, change his plans, or be placed in an absent-without-leave status and subject to disciplinary action.