(4) Reserve Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.

(5) Civil Air Patrol.

SECTION 2. Military Leave Accrual. Military leave is accrued at the rate of 15 days per fiscal year based on the number of hours in the regularly scheduled tour of duty; e.g., an eligible employee who has a regularly scheduled tour of 20 hours a week accrues 71⁄2 days of military leave per fiscal year (15 x (20 divided by 40) = 72).

SECTION 3. Civil Disturbance Activities. Military leave not to exceed 22 workdays in a calendar year, which is in addition to the military leave covered above, is authorized for permanent or temporary employees who are called to duty as members of the National Guard or Armed Forces Reserve for the purpose of providing military aid to enforce the law (civil disturbances). Pay received by an employee while on leave as described in this paragraph must be promptly remitted to the Disbursing Officer to entitle the employee to his or her regular compensation.

SECTION 4. Carry-Over of Unused Military Leave. Military leave which is not used in the fiscal year in which it accrues is carried forward to the succeeding fiscal year, up to a maximum carry-over of 15 days. Military leave may not be charged in increments of less than 1 day. Therefore, a part-time employee who accrues a partial day of military leave will carry over that partial day to the succeeding fiscal year.

SECTION 5. Special Provisions of Law for Granting Additional Military Leave. An employee who is a member of the National Guard of the District of Columbia is entitled to additional military leave for service which he or she may be ordered to perform in connection with parades or encampments without limit as to the number of days.

SECTION 6. Procedures. Employees should inform the supervisor immediately upon learning that it will be necessary to request military leave. Employees shall then submit Standard Form 71, Application for Leave, in advance, together with a copy of their orders. If a copy is not available at the time the SF71 is submitted, a copy must be furnished as soon as it is received. In those instances where there is a choice of several periods of military training, the employee should confer with their supervisors in order to determine which time would be mutually beneficial to the employee and to the Office. Within 10 calendar days after return from military duty, the employee shall submit official evidence that the absence from work was a result of compliance with military orders.

ARTICLE XVIII

ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE

SECTION 1. General. Administrative Leave will be granted to employees in accordance with the following provisions of this Article.

SECTION 2. Voting and Registration.

a. Local Commuting Area. As a general rule, an employee is not entitled to any excused time if the polls are open 3 hours either before or after his working hours. If the polls are not open at least 3 hours before or after, the supervisor will grant sufficient time to vote in order to permit the employee to report for work 3 hours after the polls are open or leave work 3 hours before the polls close, whichever requires the lesser amount of time off.

b. Beyond Commuting Distance. If an employee's voting place is beyond normal commuting distance,

and if voting by absentee ballot is not permitted, the supervisor will grant up to 8 hours of administrative leave for this purpose.

c. For employees who vote in jurisdictions which require registration in person, time off to register may be granted on substantially the same basis as for voting, except that no such time shall be granted if registration can be accomplished on a nonworkday and the place of registration is within reasonable one-day round-trip travel distance of the employee's place of residence.

SECTION 3. Blood Donation. An employee who donates blood at the GPO shall be allowed up to 2 hours to leave his worksite, give blood and return to his worksite. Employees whose jobs require repetitive lifting of weight over 50 pounds, driving motorized vehicles, or the operation of high speed automated equipment will be allowed up to 2 hours after giving blood to recuperate and return to their worksite. An employee shall be excused to donate blood, for up to 4 hours, when the donation is made outside the agency and is coordinated through the Employee Relations Branch.

SECTION 4. Work-Related Absences

a. Promotion Interviews. An employee whose name appears on a Government Printing Office Federal Merit Promotion Program Certificate shall be granted administrative leave to be interviewed by the selecting official if necessary.

b. Visits to the Personnel Service. Supervisors may grant a reasonable amount of time to employees for authorized visits to the various offices of the Personnel Service.

c. Examinations. Administrative Leave may be granted to an employee who takes an examination

administered by GPO during his regularly scheduled tour of duty.

SECTION 5. Emergency Telephone Calls. Normally up to 20 minutes of excused time may be approved for an employee to make or receive an emergency telephone call. When emergency calls are received, all supervisors will insure that employees who are present at their work station are located and promptly called to the telephone. When the employee cannot be promptly located to receive the call, the message should be relayed as soon as possible.

SECTION 6. Emergencies and Unusual Circumstances. The Public Printer or his designee may authorize administrative leave (including late entry and early dismissal) when normal operations of the Office are interrupted by such unusual events as extreme weather conditions, serious interruptions of public transportation, or massive power failure. In cases of early dismissal, employees who are already on leave at the time of the dismissal will remain charged with leave (annual, sick, or leave without pay, as applicable).

SECTION 7. Military Funerals.

a. An employee who is a veteran of a war, or of a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized, or a member of an honor or ceremonial group of an organization of those veterans, may be excused for up to 4 hours in any one day to enable him to participate as an active pallbearer or as a member of a firing squad or a guard of honor in a funeral ceremony for a member of the armed forces whose remains are returned from abroad for final interment in the United States. Appropriate documentation will be provided by the employee.

b. An employee shall be granted up to 3 days of leave to make arrangement for or to attend the funeral or memorial services of an immediate relative who died as the result of a wound, disease, or injury incurred as a member of the Armed Forces while serving in combat. The 3 days need not be consecutive, but, if not, the employee will furnish the GPO satisfactory reasons justifying a grant of funeral leave for nonconsecutive days. Funeral leave shall be granted only from a prescribed tour of duty, including regularly scheduled overtime. The term "immediate relative" is defined as:

1. Spouse, and parents thereof;

2. Children, including adopted children, and their spouses;

3. Parents;

4. Brothers and sisters and their spouses;

5. Any individual related by blood or affinity whose close association with the deceased was such as to have been equivalent of a family relationship.

SECTION 8. Preinduction Physical Examination. An employee will be afforded administrative leave to take a preinduction physical examination as ordered by the Selective Service System. Appropriate documentation will be provided by the employee.

SECTION 9. Civil Defense Programs. In accordance with the provisions of E.O. 10529 (April 22, 1984) employees designated by the Public Printer may be excused for a reasonable amount of time, not to exceed 40 hours in a calendar year, to participate in federally recognized civil defense programs. Satisfactory evidence of participation will be provided by the employee.

SECTION 10. Conventions, Conferences and Meetings. Employees may be excused to attend job-related