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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-603" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="State Employees' Leave Bank and Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Leave Bank consists of donated leave and forfeited annual, personal, and sick leave.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An employee is a member of the Leave Bank for 2 years from the date on which the employee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>voluntarily donates at least 8 hours of annual, personal, or sick leave to the Leave Bank in accordance with this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>has at least 8 hours of annual or personal leave placed in the Leave Bank as a result of a forfeiture under § 9-307, § 9-403, or § 9-507 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Secretary may grant leave from the State Employees' Leave Bank to an employee who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>has exhausted all forms of annual, personal, sick, and compensatory leave because of a serious and prolonged medical condition;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>provides a certificate of illness or disability; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>is a member of the State Employees' Leave Bank; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is granted an exemption by the Secretary from the membership requirement for good cause.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
