An employee may be suspended or dismissed for
cause, including but not limited to any of the following causes:
A. The employee is incompetent or inefficient in the
performance of his or her duties;
B. The employee has been wantonly careless or negligent
in the performance of duty;
C. The employee has been offensive in treatment of the
public, fellow employees or other persons;
D. The employee has violated any lawful regulation or
order or failed to obey any lawful direction given by the employee's
superior;
E. The employee has taken a fee, gift, or other valuable
thing in the course of his or her work or in connection with it, when
such a fee, gift, or other valuable thing is given by any person or
organization in the hope and expectation of receiving a favor or better
treatment than that accorded other persons;
F. The employee has been convicted of a criminal offense;
G. The employee, through negligence or willful conduct,
has caused damage to public property or waste of public supplies;
H. The employee has been late or absent from work on
an excessive number of occasions without justifiable cause;
I. The employee's driver's license has been suspended
or revoked and the employee's duties require his or her operation
of a motor vehicle, or the employee has knowingly operated a motor
vehicle while his or her driver's license was suspended or revoked;
J. The employee has been guilty of other misconduct or
insubordination;
K. The employee has been guilty of abusing sick leave as that term is defined in Article
IX hereof;
L. The employee has been guilty of a violation of Article
XVIII hereof, relating to substance abuse.
Any suspension imposed as a disciplinary measure
pursuant to the preceding sections of this article shall be without
pay.