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- A 40 ORDINANCE NO. 3275 An Ordinance providing for vacations for certain City employees of the City of Everett. THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: That, effective commencing January 1, 1950, and each year thereafter, each City employee, except members of the Fire Department, who shall have worked twelve (12 ) full calen- dar months during the preceding year, shall be granted sixteen (16) consecutive days vacation with pay. The vacation shall in- clude sixteen (16) consecutive days, including ► aturday and Sun- day; PROVIDED that, if a legal holiday shall fall within such period of time, being a holiday upon which said employee would otherwise be granted a day' s vacation, then an additional day's vacation shall be granted such employee. Those employees who shall have worked less than twelve (12) full calendar months during the preceding year shall be granted a vacation of one (1) working aay for each full month worked during the preceding year, up to but not in excess of sixteen (16) consecutive days ' vaca- tion, as above provided for persons having worked twelve (12) calendar months during the preceding year. Section 2: The time of taking vacations shall be fixed by the head of the department. The full vacation shall normally be taken without interruption, except where a divided vacation is necessary or desirable in order to facilitate the conduct of city business and except where the department head and employees, by mutual agreement, arrange for vacation time for officers and em- ployees on any schedule, divided or otherwise, which will least interfere with the functioning of the department. Section 3: A vacation shall be taken only in the year following which the same was earned and shall not be cumulative; PROVIDED that the Council, upon recommendation of the head of the department concerned, may, by resolution adopted prior to the ex- piration of the calendar year in which an earned vacation should be taken, provide that such earned vacation be cumulative if take in the year following the adoption of such resolution where the Council finds that there are special circumstances justifying an extended vacation. Section 4: Each employee whose service is terminated will be allowed pay for any vacation earned in the preceding year and not taken prior to separation from the city service, but no pay shall be allowed for vacation earned in the current year. Payment for a vacation may be made to an employee who, during any year, was not granted the vacation to which such employee was en- titled, solely on account of the inability of the City to obtain a suitable relief employee; PROVIDED further that, before payment can be mace for a vacation not actually taken, the City Council shall determine that such payment is necessary to prevent an in- justice to the employee involved and shall, by resolution or or- dinance, authorize such payment within thirty (30) days of the expiration of the year for which any such payment is made. No such payment shall be made to an employee who fails to request a vacation or fails to take his or her vacation at the time allotte4 by the department head.