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again earn accumulate sick leave at the rate of eleven and two tenths (11.2) hours per month. No employee shall accumulate more than two thousand sixteen hours (2,016) of sick leave except as follows. Effective October 1, 1990 fire battalion chiefs may accumulate an unlimited number of sick leave hours; except, however; hours accumulated in excess of two thousand sixteen (2016) may be used only to apply toward additional years of service under the current PERS "Credit for Unused Sick Leave ". Section 20862.8. Employees may be allowed a sick leave deficit of thirty three and six tenths (33.6) hours beyond that, actually earned. Employees on leave of absence with pay in lieu of temporary disability payments pursuant to Section 4850 of the Labor Code, shall accumulate sick leave during said leave of absence, in accordance with the provisions of this section. 6.5(4) Sick Leave Usage All full -time management and confidential employees shall be eligible for sick leave with pay. Sick Leave shall not be considered a right which an employee may use at his /her discretion, but shall be allowed only as follows: 1) In cases of necessity and actual personal sickness or disability of the employee; 2) For medical and dental appointments of the employee, at the discretion of the immediate supervisor; 3) For the care of or attendance upon the sickness or disability of members of his /her immediate family or for bereavement because of the death of a member of his /her immediate family. A maximum of forty (40) hours per year of sick leave may be used for this purpose, except that battalion chiefs may use fifty -six (56) hours for this purpose. The immediate family shall consist of the spouse, children, parents, brothers, sisters or other individual whose relationship to the employee is that of a dependent or near dependent. Effective March 1, 1986, an employee's grandparents shall be considered, immediate family for purposes of bereavement leave. The department head shall grant such leave and determine the amount thereof; provided, however, that the Personnel Director shall first, where necessary, pass upon sufficiency of relationship. This provision does not apply if the family sickness or disability or the employee's bereavement occurs while the employee is on vacation leave. Management and confidential employees eligible for temporary disability payments may use accumulated sick - 11 -