Subject: 9978/Code/2-151(h)/BuyBack of Personal Leave
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1989 12:20:00 -0500


                              ORDINANCE NO.   9978 
                  
                  
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE,
                   PART II, BY ADDING A NEW SECTION 2-151(h),
                   RELATIVE TO PURCHASING PERSONAL LEAVE TIME
                   FROM EMPLOYEES.
                  
                  
                                                    
                  
                  
       	    	 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
       CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE:
       	    	 SECTION 1.  That Chattanooga City Code, Part II, be and
       is hereby amended by adding thereto a new Section 2-151(h) as
       follows:
            Sec. 2-151.  Personal Leave.
           
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            	 (h)  Buy-back of personal leave.  Upon application
            of an employee, the City of Chattanooga may purchase
            back from its employees personal leave which they have
            accrued, but only under the following circumstances and
            conditions which must be agreed to by each employee
            seeking to sell the leave:
           
            	  1.  No more than sixty (60) days of leave will be
                      purchased from any employee during his/her
                      lifetime;
           
            	  2.  The City will pay to the employee seventy
                      percent (70%) of the employee's daily salary
                      for each day of leave sold back to the City by
                      the employee;
           
            	  3.  The employee agrees in writing that the cap on
                      the amount of days that employee is entitled
                      to accumulate over his/her career will be
                      reduced on a day-for-day basis for the number
                      of days the City is purchasing;
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            	  4.  The City will not purchase any days which
                      would lower the employee's total accumulated
                      leave below thirty (30) days;
           
            	  5.  The practice of buying back leave will be
                      subject to the availability of funds to do so
                      at the time of the request, the determination
                      of which availability will be at the sole
                      discretion of the city administration; and
           
            	  6.  Funds realized by employees from the sale of
                      leave will be excluded from pension-eligible
                      earnings.
           
       	    	 SECTION 2.  That this ordinance shall be effective two
       (2) weeks from and after its passage as provided by law.
      
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading November 16, 1993.    
s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
      
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:   X   DISAPPROVED: _______
      
       	    	      	   	     DATE:  November 17, 1993.
      
      
       	    	      	   	     s/s_________________________________
       RLN:cjc	      	   	     	       	    MAYOR