(a) Any teacher who elects to participate in the bank shall initially have a maximum of three (3) days of sick leave deducted from such teacher’s personal accumulation and donated to the sick leave bank.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 49-5-807

  • bank: means a local system accounting of voluntarily pooled and irrevocably donated accumulated personal sick leave that is collected for the purpose of providing sick leave to members of the program who have suffered an unplanned personal illness, injury, disability or quarantine and whose personal sick leave is exhausted. See Tennessee Code 49-5-802
  • Sick leave: means a designated amount of compensation leave accumulated pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 49-5-802
  • Teacher: means all persons entitled to sick leave under §. See Tennessee Code 49-5-802
  • trustees: means those persons appointed to administer a local school system sick leave bank. See Tennessee Code 49-5-802
(b) Donations of sick leave to the bank are nonrefundable and nontransferable.
(c) At any time the number of days in the sick leave bank is less than twenty (20), or one (1) per member if there are more than twenty (20) members, or at any time deemed advisable, the trustees shall assess each member one (1) or more days of accumulated sick leave. If a member has no accumulated sick leave at the time of assessment, the first earned days shall be donated as they are accrued by the teacher.
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