ARTICLE 4. BENEFIT AND LEAVE PROGRAMS EFFECTIVE DATE: 05/04/98
RULE 402. PAID TIME OFF REVISED DATE: 06/05/03

A.    GENERAL: Paid Time Off (PTO) provides employees flexibility and the responsibility to manage
        their Paid Time Off for personal illness or injury, illness, injury or death of a family member, medical
        and dental appointments, personal business, vacations and holidays not observed by the Court.

B. ELIGIBILITY AND ACCRUAL:

1. Full and part-time benefits eligible employees who work at least twenty (20) hours per week are
eligible to accrue PTO leave credits from the date of employment.

        2.    PTO leave shall accrue during any approved leave of absence with pay or suspension with pay. An
               employee on an approved leave of absence with pay who is using PTO, EIB, and/or comp time
               accruals to supplement income replacement through short-term disability is eligible to accrue PTO
               leave during such paid leave of absence.

        3.    PTO leave shall not accrue during any leave of absence without pay when such leaves have a
               duration of one or more pay periods. PTO leave shall not accrue during the time that an employee
               is receiving short-term disability benefits or donated leave.

4. PTO leave shall not be advanced to an employee.

C. RATE OF ACCRUAL: An eligible employee shall accrue PTO leave as follows:

1. Eligible full-time employees shall accrue PTO leave credits at the following rates:

Years of Continuous Service Hours Accrued Per Payperiod

1 8

2 through 4 9

5 through 9 10

10 through 14 11

15 and over
12

2. Eligible part-time employees shall accrue PTO leave for each two (2) week period they are in a
pay status as established by the Mohave County Finance Department as follows:

Years of Continuous Service	Hours Accrued Per Payperiod
1	4.00
2 through 4	4.50
5 through 9	5.00
10 through 14	5.50
15 and over	6.00

D. USE OF PTO LEAVE:

1. With exception of accrued holiday leave, an eligible employee is required to serve three (3) continuous,
non-interrupted full months of service as a benefits eligible employee before using accrued PTO leave.

2. PTO leave shall not be charged against an employee's accrued leave balance for an authorized
holiday which occurs while an employee is using PTO leave.

3. PTO leave accrued during an absence with pay may not be used until the employee has returned
to work from the absence and has worked at least one (1) full day.

4. The Division Head has the authority to approve or disapprove PTO leave requested by an
employee for good cause.

5. A Division Head may require that an employee postpone or change scheduled PTO leave for
good cause.

6. PTO leave will not be used in any manner which generates paid hours in excess of the normal
work week.

7. PTO leave will be allowed only to the extent that will ensure payment for a full work
week applicable to the budgeted position.

8. PTO leave may be used to supplement Short Term Disability (STD) payments up to 100% of
base salary.

E.    VERIFICATION OF NEED FOR SICK RELATED PTO LEAVE: The Division Head may
        require an employee requesting sick related PTO leave or having used sick related PTO
        leave to submit documents substantiating the need for such leave in accordance with these Rules.
        Such evidence may include, but is not limited to, a certificate from a licensed physician or practitioner
        and/or an examination by a physician designated by the Court. The Division Head has the authority to
        approve or disapprove sick related PTO leave requested by an employee. The Division Head may
        disapprove the request for sick related PTO leave if such Division Head does not consider the
        documentation received adequate or if the designated physician determines that the request for sick
        related PTO leave is not a valid request. In such instance, for any time taken as sick related PTO leave,
        the employee's time shall be charged first to compensatory leave if available, or leave without pay.

F.    FORFEITURE OF PTO LEAVE:   There shall be no limit on the amount of PTO accrued by an
        employee, however the maximum payout a regular status employee can receive upon separation is four
        hundred (400) hours of unused accrued PTO leave. Upon separation, any accrued PTO hours above
        four hundred (400) will be forfeited. Additionally, an employee shall work the two (2) weeks prior to
        resignation unless other arrangements are made in accordance with Rule 802(A4).

Original probationary employees who do not complete their probationary period shall forfeit accrued
PTO leave excluding accrued holiday leave hours which the employee will not forfeit.

G.    LEAVE REQUEST: With the exception of emergencies, injuries or illness, PTO leave must be
        scheduled at least one (1) week in advance and approved by the Division Head. Division Heads may
        approve leave requests received on less than one (1) week's notice at their discretion. In all cases, a
        PTO Request Form must be filled out by the employee and submitted for approval.

In the event of emergency, injury, or illness, employees must notify their supervisor in accordance with
provisions of Rule 504(C).

H. REPORTING AND RECORDING LEAVE: The Division Head shall be responsible for ensuring
that all leave used is properly recorded.

I.    DISPOSITION OF ACCRUED LEAVE: An employee who transfer from one division to another
        Judicial Division or from Mohave County to Judicial service, or vice versa, shall retain any accumulated
        PTO leave. An employee who changes from one employment type to another employment type shall
        retain any accumulated PTO leave and shall be eligible to use and/or accrue in accordance with his/her
        current employment type.

J. SEPARATION: A regular employee who separates from Judicial service shall be paid for up to a
maximum of four hundred (400) hours of unused PTO leave at the employee's current rate of pay.