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Section 8. Sick Leave Bank. Full-time employees, whether or not covered by the Union Contract, will be eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank if, on July 1st of a given year, they have: (a) Thirty (30) or more days of accumulated sick leave, or less than thirty (30) days of accumulated sick leave, but have three (3) or more years of full-time service in the Village and can establish that the failure to accumulate days was the result of a disabling injury or illness, not covered by Workers' Compensation, resulting in a continuous absence under the care of a physician. Said failure to accumulate days as a result of a single disabling injury or illness shall be verified by the submission of the treating physician's statement. (b) An employee shall have only one (1) opportunity during his/her service with the Village to become a member of the Sick Leave Bank and must be done within a sixty (60) day period following their date of eligibility. (Sick Leave Bank Agreement dated 9/4/90). (c) The Sick Leave Bank will be administered by a Committee comprised of the Mayor, or his designee, a Village office employee and a Union representative, according to the following regulations: 1. Each participating employee will contribute two (2) days of accumulated sick leave, on an irrevocable basis, in July of each year unless the total number of days in the bank is one hundred sixty-five (165) or more days on July 1. The limit of time in the Sick Leave Bank shall be one hundred sixty-five (165) days plus contributionsby any new participants during that year. If there are one hundred sixty- five (165) or more days, current members may remain in the Bank without contributing days and new members may join by contributing two (2) days of accumulated sick leave. This shall not prohibit a participant from contributing more than two (2) days of sick leave upon enrollment only, to a maximum of ten (10) days, but shall not allow a participant to draw more than the permissible amount stated in the following in any given year or allow increased withdrawal rights. Contributions of accumulated sick leave days will not count against the participant for purposes of qualifying said participant for payment for non-use of sick leave. 2. A disabling injury or illness is defined to be one which is the direct cause of an inability of the individual to perform his assigned job responsibilities and, therefore, results in a continuous absence, or the recurrence of a continuing condition, both while under the care of a physician, which prevents the individual from performing his/her job responsibilities. 3. To be eligible for use of the Sick Leave Bank, a participant must: (a) have exhausted all individual leave benefits, (b) be unable to perform a different full-time job assignment if said assignment is available, with such inability to be verified in writing by the treating physician, serve a five (5) day waiting period without pay prior to being 27