Police and Fire Department Rules and Regulations

Rule XIII - RESIGNATION

SEC. 1.
(a) Good Standing. An employee wishing to leave the classified service of the City in good standing shall file with the Chief of his department and the personnel officer, at least two (2) weeks before leaving, a written resignation stating the date it shall become effective and the reason for leaving. Failure to comply with this rule shall be entered on the service record of the employee and may be a ground for considering him as having resigned not in good standing.
(b) Voluntary Resignation. Every employee in the classified service of the City of Stockton who shall absent himself from his daily work or assigned duties for the City without a leave of absence from the personnel officer for a period of five (5) consecutive work days, shall be deemed by such action to have voluntarily and permanently resigned from his position in the classified service of the City of Stockton, and shall be deemed to have voluntarily and permanently severed and separated himself from his position in the classified service of the City, and from the benefits of the Civil Service of the City of Stockton.
Every such employee by his unauthorized absence as herein specified shall be deemed to have voluntarily and permanently withdrawn from the Civil Service System of the City of Stockton, and to have forfeited his position and classification therein, and the position he occupied shall be deemed vacant.
(c) Every employee in the classified service of the City of Stockton who shall absent himself from his daily work or assigned duties for the City without a leave of absence from the personnel officer or the Chief of his department, unless physical incapacity or other circumstances render it impossible or not reasonably practicable to notify the personnel officer or his department, shall be deemed guilty of misconduct, insubordination and disobedience in the discharge of his duties for the City.