Ordinance 36-01
Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 3:00PM WHEREAS, in view of the events of September 11, 2001 and
the subsequent activation of 50,000 reservists, (including
one Village of Granville employee), it has become
appropriate to review the topic of military leave for our
Village employees, and
WHEREAS, it has become apparent that Section 145.14 of the
Codified Ordinances of the Village of Granville needs to be
revised to conform with the current state of the law in
Ohio.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE
VILLAGE OF GRANVILLE, OHIO:
Section I: The existing Section 145.14 of the Codified
Ordinances of the Village of Granville be and hereby is
amended to read as follows:
Section 145.14, Village employees entitled to paid military
leave.
(A) (1) Village employees, who are members of the
Ohio organized militia, or members of other reserve
components of the armed forces of the United States,
including the Ohio national guard, are entitled to leave of
absence from their respective positions without loss of pay
for the time they are performing service in the uniformed
services, as defined in section 5903.01 of the Revised Code
for periods of up to one month, for each calendar year in
which they are performing service in the uniformed services.
(2) As used in this section, “calendar year” means the
year beginning on the first day of January and ending on
the last day of December, and “month” means twenty-two
eight-hour work days or one hundred seventy-six hours
within one calendar year.
(B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C ) of
this section, any Village employee who is entitled to the
leave provided under division (A) of this section and who
is called or ordered to the uniformed services for longer
than a month, for each calendar year in which the employee
performed service in the uniformed services, because of an
executive order issued by the president of the United
States or an act of congress is entitled, during the period
designated in the order or act, to a leave of absence and
to be paid for the first month as specified above in (A)
(1), and thereafter, during each monthly pay period of that
leave of absence, the lesser of the following:
(1) The difference between the Village employee’s gross
monthly wage or salary as a Village employee and the sum of
the Village employee’s gross uniformed pay and allowances
received that month;
(2) Five hundred dollars.
(C) No Village employee shall receive payments under
division (B) of this section if the sum of the Village
employee’s gross uniformed pay and allowances received in a
pay period exceeds the employee’s gross wage or salary as a
Village employee for that period or if the Village employee
is receiving pay under division (A) of this section.
(D) Each Village employee who is entitled to leave
provided under division (A) of this section shall submit to
the Village Finance Officer the published order authorizing
the call or order to the uniformed services or a written
statement from the appropriate military commander
authorizing that service, prior to being credited with such
leave.
Section II: This Ordinance shall take effect and be in
full force from and after the earliest period allowed by law
