H. B. 2286
(By Delegates Swartzmiller, DeLong and Stemple)
[Introduced January 15, 2003; referred to the
Committee on Political Subdivisions then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section seventeen-a, article fourteen,
chapter seven of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to increasing the
accrual rate of vacation time for deputy sheriffs with twenty
and twenty-five years of service and increasing from thirty to
forty-five days the number of vacation days a deputy sheriff
may carry from one calendar year to the next.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section seventeen-a, article fourteen, chapter seven of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 14. CIVIL SERVICE FOR DEPUTY SHERIFFS.
§7-14-17a. Vacations for deputy sheriffs.
(a) The county commission of each county shall allow the
sheriff's deputies in its employ, vacation time accrued in the following manner: For deputies with less than five years of
service, vacation time shall be accrued at the rate of one and
one-quarter days for each calendar month of service; for deputies
with five to ten years of service, vacation time shall be accrued
at the rate of one and one-half days for each calendar month of
service; for deputies with ten to fifteen years of service,
vacation time shall be accrued at the rate of one and three-quarter
days for each calendar month of service; for deputies with fifteen
or more to twenty years of service, vacation time shall be accrued
at the rate of two days for each calendar month of service, for
deputies with twenty to twenty-five years of service, vacation time
shall be accrued at the rate of two and one-quarter days for each
calendar month of service; for deputies with twenty-five or more
years of service, vacation time shall be accrued at the rate of two
and one-half days for each calendar month of service.
(b) Each deputy sheriff shall only receive vacation time for
each month in which he or she shall have worked one hour more than
one-half the normal working hours in a given month as prescribed by
the sheriff.
(c) No more than thirty forty-five days of accrued vacation
time may be carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the accrual
rate of vacation time for deputy sheriffs with twenty and
twenty-five years of service
and to increase the number of days of accrued vacation time from thirty to forty-five days that may be
carried from one calendar year to the next for all deputy sheriffs.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.