RS 441 - Definitions
For the purposes of this Part, the following words and terms, when used in this Part, shall have the following meanings:
(1) "Employing agency" means the agency of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government in which the leave recipient is employed.
(2) "Leave donor" means a full-time employee of an employing agency whose voluntary written request for transfer of annual, sick, or compensatory leave to the pool leave account of his employing agency is granted.
(3) "Leave recipient" means a full-time employee of an employing agency who has a personal emergency and is selected to receive annual, sick, or compensatory leave from the pool leave account of his employing agency.
(4) "Personal emergency" means a catastrophic illness or serious injury to a full-time state employee participating in the employing agency's leave-transfer program, or to the employee's spouse or a minor child of the employee, which prevents the employee from performing his duties for a period of more than ten consecutive days which the employee is scheduled to work and the employee does not have sufficient annual, sick, or compensatory leave credited to the employee personally to cover the entire period of illness or injury.
Acts 1992, No. 1008, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993; Acts 2012, No. 590, §1, eff. June 7, 2012.