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3-6-6. Vacation leave--Accrual and accumulation--Advanced leave. Each state employee shall earn fifteen working days vacation time per full year of employment. Any employee with more than fifteen years employment shall receive twenty working days vacation with pay for each year of employment. Such leave shall be accrued on an hourly, biweekly, semimonthly, or monthly basis as determined by the commissioner of personnel. No vacation hours earned may be used until the employee has served the initial six-month period. Vacation hours are cumulative only to the extent of that which may be earned in a period of time not exceeding two years of regular and continuous state employment. No advanced leave of absence for vacation with pay may be granted at any time.

Source: SDC 1939, § 55.2701 (7); SL 1953, ch 292; SL 1955, ch 244; SL 1957, ch 286; SL 1961, ch 272; SL 1972, ch 18; SL 1976, ch 32, § 2; SL 2003, ch 25, § 1.