§ 3005-b. Leave of absence for personal illness. The school
authorities of each school district outside of a city having a
population in excess of one million shall allow each teacher employed by
the district sick leave without loss of salary for at least ten working
days in any year on account of personal sickness or physical disability;
and provided, further, that if any employee does not use the full amount
of sick leave allowed in any school year, the amount not used shall be
accumulated from year to year and used, if needed, up to a total of not
less than one hundred fifty working days. Any accumulation of unused
sick leave heretofore granted by such school authorities shall be
counted toward the accumulated leave herein provided. Nothing contained
in this section shall be construed to authorize a reduction in the
amount of accumulated leave granted to a teacher prior to July first,
nineteen hundred sixty-five.