O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-853 (2019)

Accumulation of and payment for additional days of unused sick leave

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) Personnel who have accumulated 45 days of unused sick leave may accumulate additional days of unused sick leave during each school year for the purpose of receiving the payments provided for in subsection (b) of this Code section.

(b) Beginning with the 1988-89 school year and continuing each school year thereafter, personnel who have accumulated 45 days of unused sick leave and who then accumulate additional days of unused sick leave during a school year as authorized by Code Section 20-2-850 and who:

(1) Have used no sick leave in that school year shall receive the state contribution for all those additional days of unused sick leave; or

(2) Have used only one day of those additional days of sick leave in that school year shall receive $50.00 for all those additional days of unused sick leave. The payment for such additional unused sick leave which is accumulated during a school year shall be paid to such personnel at the end of that school year.

History

Code 1981, § 20-2-853, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1496, § 3; Ga. L. 1989, p. 14, § 20; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 20.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1989, “subsection (b)” was substituted for “subsection (c)” in subsection (a).

ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUC.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Entitlement limited to teachers. - State law entitlement to payments for unused sick leave is limited to teachers and does not include administrative and other personnel in view of the reference in O.C.G.A. § 20-2-850(c) to O.C.G.A. § 202-182(f) (now a reference to § 20-2182(g)), which applies only to “teachers.” 1989 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 89-21. Payments dependent upon appropriations. - Neither the State Board of Education nor the local boards of education are obligated to make payments to

teachers for unused sick leave if the General Assembly fails to appropriate adequate funds to make such payments. 1989 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 89-21. Adoption of policies by local boards. - Local boards of education are not prohibited from adopting policies providing for payments for unused sick leave, so long as the cost of implementing and maintaining such policies is paid entirely from local, as opposed to state, funds. 1989 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 89-21.

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