Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 7. LOCAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER 32. LAW ENFORCEMENT

Part 41. Municipal Police Force

Work Period -- Days Off Duty Without Loss Of Compensation

7-32-4118. Work period -- days off duty without loss of compensation. (1) The chief of police may establish the work period for officers and other personnel in the department and may establish a work period other than that provided in 39-3-405 for determining when an employee must be paid overtime compensation. The total hours in all work periods in a calendar year may not exceed 2,080.

(2) Each officer or other employee of the police force in every city of the first and second class shall, in each calendar year, be given a minimum of 104 days off duty without loss of compensation, not including holidays, sick leave, vacation leave, or other types of compensated time off duty.

History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 53, L. 1931; re-en. Sec. 5108.15, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 65, L. 1957; R.C.M. 1947, 11-1831; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 562, L. 1983.