(a) The director shall make reasonable efforts to accommodate the request of a commissioned officer of the department who is determined by a physician to be partially physically restricted by a pregnancy if the request is related to the officer’s working conditions.
(b) If the physician of an officer certifies that, because of the officer’s pregnancy, the officer is unable to perform the duties of the officer’s permanent work assignment and a temporary work assignment that the officer may perform is available, the director shall, on request of the officer, assign the officer to the temporary work assignment.