(a) An officer or employee who has accrued medical leave shall have 40 percent of that medical leave transferred to the officer’s or employee’s personal leave account and 60 percent of that medical leave transferred to a medical leave bank. Banked medical leave may be taken only in accordance with this section.
Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 39.20.256
state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(b) An officer or employee may not take any banked medical leave unless the officer or employee
(1) has no accrued personal leave; and(2) has a medical disability exceeding 10 consecutive working days in duration; or(3) has a medical disability exceeding 30 consecutive working days in duration.(c) Once the requirements of (b) and (d) of this section have been met, an officer or employee may take banked medical leave until the medical disability is terminated or the banked medical leave is exhausted. If an officer or employee qualifies for banked medical leave under (b)(3) of this section, the banked medical leave may be taken for all working days of the medical disability following the 10th working day of the disability.(d) When leave is taken under (b)(1) and (2) of this section, a department or agency head may require a doctor’s certificate showing the disability. When leave is taken under (b)(3) of this section, the officer or employee must submit a doctor’s certificate showing the disability.(e) The taking of leave under this section shall be reduced by the amount of wage continuation payments made under Alaska Stat. Chapter 23.30 (Alaska Workers’ Compensation Act).(f) Upon an officer’s or employee’s separation from state service, the officer’s or employee’s banked medical leave shall be canceled without pay.
