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continuous city service shall not apply unless the break service was concluded by re-appointment, as provided in Section 9-114. in Sec. 9-130. Regular vacation p~iod. Regular vacation with pay is granted to each full-time permanent or probationary employee at the rate of fifteen (15) working days for each completed year of service to be taken in the calendar year following the year in which it is earned, except as provided elsewhere in these rules. An employee who has completed less than one year's service during the calendar year shall receive a proportionate fraction in accordance with the amount of service to his credit during the year; provided, however, no employee shall be entitled to, or receive payment for any vacation until he has completed six (6) months of continuous service. Absence on sick leave for a period in excess of 15 consecutive calendar days shall not be considered as service for vacation accrual purposes. Sworn members of the police department and uniformed members of the fire department assigned to the normal five-day work- week schedule, are granted regular vacation on the same basis as other full-time employees, as set forth in the preceding paragraph. Uniformed members of the fire department assigned to the 24-hour shift schedule are granted regular vacation on the same basis as other full-time employees except that their standard work unit is a working day of twelve hours. Therefore, each sworn fire department employee in this category is granted regular vacation at an annual rate of fifteen, 12-hour working days. In those cases when an employee is transferred between 24-hour shift and normal five-day work-week schedules, the employee's earned vacation, which is accrued in hours, shall be converted to agree with the number of working hours per day in the currently assigned schedule. Sec. 131. Computing Regular Vacation In computing regular vacation, each municipal holiday that occurs during the vacation, and that falls on a day which the employee would have worked had he not been on vacation, shall be deducted from the computation so that one additional day of regular vacation shall be allowed to the employee unless departmental practice provides some other manner of compensating for municipal holidays. Should an employee be confined to a hospital for sickness or injury while on authorized vacation, each full day of such confinement, when confirmed by a physician's statement and upon department head approval, may he deducted from the computation of vacation expended and charged against the employee's accumulated sick leave. No employee may accumulat~ more than the equivalent of one regular vacation period from the previous year, and vacation not taken beyond that amount is forfeited. A regular vacation period is defined as the maximum of vacation earned in a calendar year as provided in Section 9-130 of this Code. No employee shall have a right to accumulate or split his vacation, but the same may be allowed or required by the department head. The time at which an employee shall take his vacation shall be determined by his department head, with due regard for the wishes of the employee and particular regard for the needs of the service. It is the policy of the City to grant employees vacations in order to provide them a break in their regular work schedule. In the administration of the provisions of this section the department head shall be guided by this stated purpose and he must approve in writing any accumulation of regular vacation. - 2 -