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. For law enforcement personnel, after 185.25 hours actually worked (excluding overtime)
law enforcement employees are authorized eight and one half (8.5) hours of vacation
credit.
c. After completing fourteen (14) years of continuous service, that employee's annual
accrued vacation credits prescribed in sub-paragraphs a. and b. above are increased by
twenty-five (25%) percent.
d. After completing twenty (20) years of continuous service, that employee's annual accrued
vacation credits prescribed in sub-paragraphs a. and b. above are increased by sixty-six
(66%) percent.
e. Paid holidays immediately preceding, immediately following, or wholly within the
vacation period shall not be charged as vacation.
f. In computing vacation credits, employees will be allowed to continue earning vacation
credits during time away from the job which is taken for vacation purposes, and provided
that employee returns to work for at least one full month following the vacation absence.
4.20 Priorities for Granting Vacation, Vacation Schedules, Holidays:
a. The needs of public service, and;
b. The needs of the employee.
4.21 Carry Over of Accumulated Vacation Credit: An eligible employee may accumulate
vacation days from the year earned and any unused portion of vacation may be carried over to the
next year or years. Pursuant to an order by Commissioners Court, adopted December 20, 1995, the
maximum number of vacation credit hours to be accumulated at any time by any Nueces County
employee is 240. Employees having more than 240 hours accumulated after September 30, 1996,
will lose those hours
4.22 Vacation Planning: As much as possible, employees should be encouraged to plan their
vacation requests so that department needs for temporary hire are maintained at a minimum. In no
case shall an appointing authority be required to grant a leave request without at least two weeks
notice from the employee. Appointing authorities may however, grant such requests if they determine
same to be in the interest of the county. No vacation shall be granted to, nor taken by, an employee
without the consent of the appointing authority.
4.23 Separation from County Service: At the time an employee is separated from the County
Service, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, he/she shall be paid, within the following limits, the
monetary value of all accumulated vacation to which he/she is then entitled including vacation credit
based upon his/her paid service during the pay period in which the separation occurs. The limits on
paid vacation at time of separation shall be:
a. Non-law enforcement employees will be paid at their current rate of pay for up to 96
hours of vacation leave credit.
b. Law enforcement employees will be paid at their current rate of pay for up to 102 hours of
vacation leave credit.
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Approved by Commissioners Court on January _____, 2013