An Act Amending Sections 276, 279, 284, 285 and 2243 of Act No. 2711, Known as the Administrative Code of 1917

March 16, 1923

ACT NO. 3087

AN ACT AMENDING SECTIONS TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX, TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE, TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOUR, TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE, AND TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN, REGARDING ACCRUED AND VACATION LEAVE OF ABSENCE

SECTION 1. Section two hundred and seventy-six of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and eleven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 276. Persons entitled to accrued leave. — After at least two years' continuous, faithful, and satisfactory service, the proper Head of Department shall, subject to the requirements of the public service, grant each regularly and permanently appointed officer or employee in the Philippine civil service, except as hereinafter provided, twenty-four days' accrued leave of absence with full pay, inclusive of Sundays and holidays, for each year of satisfactory service in the Islands, or abroad, if specially detailed." HSaIDc

SECTION 2. Section two hundred and seventy-nine of the said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 279. Persons not entitled to accrued leave. — The following persons shall not be entitled to accrued leave:

"(a) Laborers, skilled and unskilled, whose rate of compensation is less than two thousand pesos per annum.

"(b) Temporary and emergency employees, except detectives and secret agents.

"(c) Persons whose compensations are authorized at other than a yearly rate, except officers detailed from the military, naval, or civil service of the United States.

"(d) Persons enlisted for a term of year.

"(e) Watchmen.

"(f) Linemen.

"(g) Persons who receive compensation for official duties not requiring all their time; and persons whose salary is wholly or partly paid by municipalities, except deputy provincial and municipal treasurers or deputy provincial and township treasurers.

"(h) Persons guilty of conduct requiring separation from the service.

"(i) Persons brought to the Islands on special contract.

"(j) Any person or class of persons whose right to leave is governed by special provisions, in which such special provisions shall obtain."

SECTION 3. Section two hundred and eighty-four of the said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 284. Vacation leave in addition to accrued leave. — After at least six months' continuous, faithful, and satisfactory service, the Governor-General or proper Head of Department may, in his discretion, grant to each officer or employee entitled to accrued leave, in addition to such accrued leave, eighteen days' vacation leave of absence with full pay, inclusive of Sundays and holidays, for each calendar year of service." DaScCH

SECTION 4. Section two hundred and eighty-five of the said Act as amended by Acts Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and ninety-nine and Twenty-eight hundred and sixty-one, by repealing the last three paragraphs thereof, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 285. Vacation leave for craftsmen and classified apprentices of the Bureau of Printing. — A craftsman or classified apprentice of the Bureau of Printing may be granted thirteen days' vacation leave, at the salary received by him upon taking such leave, after at least one year of continuous, faithful, and satisfactory service as craftsman or classified apprentice, in accordance with the civil service rules and such other rules as the Department of Finance may prescribe, and the head of said Department may suspend the vacation leave granted or part thereof, if in his judgment the needs of the public service require it."

SECTION 5. Section twenty-two hundred and forty-three of the Administrative Code is hereby amended by adding, at the end thereof, the following paragraph:

"(r) To enact an ordinance empowering the municipal president to grant, subject to the requirements of the service, to any appointed municipal officer or employee, including the secretary, twelve days' vacation leave of absence with full pay, which must be taken during the year in which earned: Provided, That such vacation leave of absence shall only be granted after at least one year of continuous, faithful, and satisfactory service."

SECTION 6. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 16, 1923.