Divers' Stipend. Those employees who are members of the SCUBA diving teams engaging in search, rescue and recovery operations shall receive an annual stipend of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00). This stipend shall be paid to employees on a semiannual basis, with half paid in January and half paid in July to eligible employees, including employees on initial probation, on the payroll at the time of the payment. All qualified employees assigned to SCUBA diving activities shall, when actually diving in the water, including training activities, be compensated at the rate of ten dollars ($10.00) an hour in addition to their regular hourly rate of pay. Employees shall be compensated for a minimum of one (1) hour of such work regardless of the length of the diving assignment for any assignment less than one (1) hour; and for the actual length of the assignment for any assignment for more than one (1) hour. For example, a 30-minute assignment would be compensated at ten dollars ($10.00) for the minimum one (1) hour; a one and one-half (1½) hour assignment would be compensated at fifteen dollars ($15.00).
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