KRS 161.152: Emergency leave for school employees.

(1) For the purpose of this section, "school personnel" shall mean any person employed

as a full-time employee in the public schools.

(2) Each district board of education may allow each person employed as a full -time

employee in the public schools not to excee d three (3) emergency days per school

year for reasons designated by the district board of education, without loss of salary

to the employee and without affecting his sick leave.

(3) Personal leave granted under this section shall not be treated as having effect on the

provisions of KRS 161.155, except that school personnel, after using the maximum

days allowed in subsection (2) of this section, may, upon the recommendation of the

school district superintendent and approval of the district board of education, use up

to three (3) sick -leave days per school year for emergency leave according to the

district board policy as established pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.

(4) Payments made by a district board of education under the provisions of this sec tion

are presumed to be for services rendered and for the benefit of the common schools

and the payments do not affect the eligibility of any school district to participate in

the public school funding program as established in KRS Chapter 157.