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Dear. Mr. Papale:

I am in receipt of your request for an Attorney General's opinion concerning the following:

1) Whether a school board can refuse to pay a school bus operator (who is sick beyond ten days and provides a doctor's certificate) his full salary as long as he has accumulated sick leave, in light of the statutes, Attorney General Opinions and Dagenhardt vs. Terrebonne Parish School Board, 650 So.2d 1161 (La. 1995)?

2) Does LSA-R.S. 17:500 and 500.2 give a school board discretion to deny extended sick leave to a tenured school bus operator who has used the 10 days allowed by statute?

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