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Section 3. Limitation on Vacation. With the exception of a retiring employee, no employee is granted, and no employee shall be allowed to take, any vacation leave with pay in excess of fifty ( 50) working days ( 400 hours) in any one year by any com- bination of the vacations granted in these rules and regulations. Further, no employee may carry over from one calendar year to the next more than the equivalent of one longevity vacation period and the equivalent of one regular vacation period from the pre- vious two ( 2 ) years , and vacation not taken beyond that amount is forfeited. Therefore, the maximum vacation that an employee with less than six ( 6) years' service could accumulate is thirty (30 ) working days (240 hours) and only an employee with more than twenty ( 20 ) years' service could carry over and take the authorized maximum of fifty ( 50 ) working days (400 hours) in any one year. Section 4. Excess Usage. If vacation time off is used in excess of that available, such excess vacation time off will, first, be deducted from any available compensatory time off accrual; finally, deducted from the next scheduled wage of salary payment. ARTICLE XI - OTHER LEAVES OF ABSENCE Section 1. Sick Leave. A. Definition. Except as otherwise provided below, sick leave shall be deemed to mean absence from duty of an employee because of illness or injury that prevents the employee from performing the duties of his or her position, and shall be deemed to include time in quarantine resulting from exposure to a con- tagious disease. All "safety member" employees hired after the date of this Agreement and all persons employed as "safety members" by the City as of the date of this Agreement with five years of service or less shall not be entitled to use sick leave during periods of absence due to industrial illness or injury or to extend any leave of absence due to industrial illness or injury which leave is compensable under Labor Code Section 4850 ; provided that when said employees working for the City as of the date of this Agree- ment who then have five (5) years of continuous service with the City or less eventually complete more than five years of continuous service with the City, they shall be able to use such leave during such absences in the same manner and to the same extent as persons employed as "safety members" by the City as of the date of this Agreement who have already completed five (5 ) years of continuous service with the City. B. Accrual. Each employee shall be entitled to, and shall earn, one working day of sick leave for each full calendar month of service in which he is employed by the City with full pay; provided , however, any absence on sick leave for a period of time greater than fifteen (15 ) consecutive calendar days in any -22-