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AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 4-07-18 SERVICE AWARD PROGRAMS Section 4-07-18-04 is amended as follows: 4-07-18-04. Length of service required to receive award. An employee must have completed three. five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five, forty, forty- five, or fifty years of employment with the state in order to receive a service award. An employee who leaves employment with the state and then returns, again begins to accumulate time. That time must be added to the employee's previous service and applied to any future service award. History: Effective September 1, 1992; amended effective July 1, 2004; General Authority: NDCC 54-44.3-12 Law Implemented: NDCC 54-44.3-12(1) Section 4-07-18-05 is amended as follows: 4-07 -18-05. Service award types. The types of service awards that are given to employees must be provided as follows: 1. Followinq the completion of three years; certificate or plaque. and a qift not to exceed a value of twenty-five dollars. 4~. Following the completion of five years; certificate or plaque, and a gift not to exceed a value of t\l.'enty five fifty dollars. 2~. Following the completion of ten years; certificate or plaque, and a gift not to exceed a value of seventy five one hundred dollars. J1. Following the completion of fifteen years; certificate or plaque, and a gift not to exceed a value of seventy five one hundred fifty dollars. 4,Q. Following the completion of twenty years; certificate or plaque, and a gift not to exceed a value of two hundred dollars. aQ. Following the completion of twenty-five years; certificate or plaque, and a gift not to exceed a value of two hundred twenty five fifty dollars. aI. Following the completion of thirty years; certificate or plaque, and a gift not to exceed a value of n\!o hundred fifty three hundred dollars. 9