Opinion No.

The Honorable Steven B. Jones State Representative P.O. Box 3040 West Memphis, AR 72303-3040

Dear Representative Jones:

I am writing in response to your request for an opinion concerning a city's sick leave policy for firefighters. As backdrop for your question, you state:

At one point, the [City of West Memphis] had agreed that firefighters would be able to acquire twenty/twenty-four hour days of sick time and they would be allowed to accumulate up to sixty/twenty-four hour days over a three year period. At the time of retirement, they would be allowed to sell back forty-five of the days to the…