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Dear Mr. Walters:

You have requested the opinion of this office on several issues pertaining to the payment of sick leave to municipal police department employees under LSA-R.S. 33:2214. Your opinion request has been assigned to me for consideration and response. The facts relevant to the questions you ask, which were related to this writer through your letter and by oral communication, are as follows:

A Slidell police department employee was injured in an automobile accident on May 5, 1989. She was on duty at the time of the accident which was caused by the negligence of a third party. The…