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Heading: Leave of absence statutes.

Text: Code of 1940, Title 12, § 151, is as follows: All permanent employees holding regular full time positions under the jurisdiction of this chapter shall be allowed a vacation with pay at the rate of one work day per month of service. Such vacation allowance shall be cumulative to not to exceed twenty-six work days. The time for such vacation shall be determined by the appointing authority except that the employee, if a vacation has not been allowed him during the calendar year, may demand that he be given a vacation not exceeding twelve work days. Employees who resign in good standing or who are separated from the service without fault or delinquency on their part shall be allowed credit for vacation earned. Any employee who is dismissed for cause shall forfeit all vacation allowances. The rules and regulations shall contain provisions for granting permanent employees sick leave with pay and for leave without pay. The foregoing section is a part of Chapter 12, Title 12, which, until passage of Act No. 248, Regular Session 1945, approved July 6, 1945, Gen.Acts 1945, p. 376, Code 1940, Tit. 62, § 330(21) et seq., contained the law providing for the Civil Service System applicable to Birmingham. Section 19 of Act No. 248 and the above § 151 are identical. Accordingly, for the purposes of this opinion we will refer only to § 151. Code of 1940, Title 35, § 12, provides as follows: All officers and employees of the State of Alabama, or of any county, municipality, or other agency or political subdivision thereof, who shall be active members of the Alabama national guard or naval militia, or of the officer's reserve corps of the United States Army, or of the United States naval reserves, shall be entitled to military or naval leave of absence from their respective civil duties and occupations on all days that they shall be engaged in field or coast defense or other training or on other service ordered under the provisions of this chapter, or of the national defense act, or of the federal laws governing the United States naval reserves, without loss of pay, time, efficiency rating, annual vacation, or sick leave, but no such person granted such leave of absence with pay shall be paid for more than twenty-one working days at any one time.