That the overtime compensation policy for exempt and nonexempt employees of the Columbus City police department shall be as follows:

    A.    Columbus police officers who hold "nonexempt" positions and, in the course of their duties, are required to work beyond their regularly scheduled hours of assignment, shall receive compensatory pay at the rate of one and one-half the normal hourly rate for all hours worked above one hundred seventy-one hours in the twenty-eight consecutive day work period which has been established in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act.

    B.    The regularly scheduled hours of work assignment for all Columbus police officers is recognized as a minimum of one hundred sixty hours in the twenty-eight day work period. The extra hours worked between one hundred sixty and one hundred seventy-one by nonexempt employees shall be compensated in pay or compensatory time off at the rate of one times the hourly rate. Subject to the approval of the chief, personnel may receive compensatory time off in lieu of pay. Personnel may accumulate and save a maximum of sixty hours of compensatory time. All hours accumulated in excess of sixty hours shall be taken off by the end of the next consecutive work period.

    C.  All work hours shall be recorded on a daily work form which must be signed by the officer, verified by an authorized supervisor, then submitted for approval. Computation of all work hours shall be based on a twenty-eight day work period.

    D.    Any employee may be required to work overtime. Prior supervisory approval is required for all overtime worked.

    E.    Employees exempt from the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended, by virtue of their job duties and responsibilities may be compensated for extra time worked in the form of compensatory time off at the rate of one hour of compensatory time off for each hour worked beyond one hundred sixty hours within the applicable work period. No cash payment will be made for unused compensatory hours at the time of the exempt employee's termination. (Ord. 98-29 § 1, 1998: Ord. 94-08, 1994: prior code § 24-13)