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Each eligible employee on a forty(40) hour workweek shall accrue vacation with pay in accordance with the following schedule: Years of Continuous Service Monthly Accrual Rate First through fourth year 8.57 hours Fifth through eleventh 11.43 hours Twelfth through fourteenth 14.29 hours Fifteenth through sixteenth 15.71 hours Seventeenth year or more 17.14 hours Accrued vacation shall be credited to the employee's account biweekly. Any employee except a probationary employee may be allowed to incur a fifty-six (56) hour deficit beyond the vacation leave credited to his/her account. Except as provided below in Section 13.4 and for those employees working a forty(40)hour workweek, vacations must be used in increments of either twenty-four(24) or twelve (12) hours. When used in twelve-hour increments, vacations must be taken from either 0800 to 2000, or 2000 to 0800 The Fire Chief may, however, approve vacation requests in less than twelve (12) hour increments to accommodate employee enrollment in college or university courses. The courses or classes attended must, however, be appropriate to employee development. The decision of the Fire Chief shall be final. 13.3 Vacation Accumulation Any eligible employee may defer up to a maximum of one and one-half(1-1/2) times his/her annual vacation entitlement to the year succeeding his/her anniversary of hire date. 13.4 Vacation Scheduling Vacation selection will be subject to the procedure stated in Fire Department General Order, Personnel- Vacation, except for those areas specifically stated differently in this article. For the annual scheduling done in January of each year, seven (7)persons of any rank shall be allowed off at any given time. Vacation requests by an eighth (8th) or additional person requires the requesting person to provide the name of his/her replacement. (See Fire Department General Order, Personnel- Overtime, Overtime, III, M; - Finding your own Replacement). Vacation shall be prescheduled in accordance with the General Order provided the leave time requested has been earned or will be earned by the time it is taken. The Fire Chief may grant the use of up to fifty- six (56) hours of vacation time to be taken beyond what has been earned. This leave shall not be prescheduled or considered earned vacation for accrual purposes. When an employee carries a negative balance no additional vacation may be taken until a sufficient number of vacation hours have been earned. 14