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B.1. Any authorized time worked in excess of the employee's regular workweek shall be considered overtime. Overtime compensation shall be compensable at the rate of one and one-half(1.5)times the employee's regular straight time rate of pay. B.2. Fire Prevention Personnel have the option to accrue compensatory time off in lieu of overtime at the rate of one and one-half (1.5) hours for each hour worked. Upon the approval of the Fire Department, compensatory time may be accrued but the total balance may not exceed one hundred and twenty(120) hours at any time. Compensatory time off may be taken in lieu of overtime payment in accordance with the FLSA. Such time off shall be mutually agreeable to the employee and the supervisor taking into account (a) the normal schedule of work, (b) the anticipated peak hour workload based on past experience and (c) any emergency requirements for staff and services. Once an employee has accrued one hundred and twenty (120) hours of compensatory time off, the employee shall be paid for overtime worked until such time that the balance drops below the cap. With written notice prior to June 15` and December 151 of each year, an employee may request to have all accrued compensatory time paid to the employee on a separate payroll check. B.3. Fire Prevention Personnel requested after 2200 shall be allowed a delayed start time equal to the number of hours worked after 2200, if scheduled to work the same or next day. An employee shall be required to work a full shift, regardless of starting time. B.4. Minimum call out compensation shall apply if cancelled en-route. C. Suppression Employees Overtime Record: The Fire Department shall provide the current overtime selection factor for each suppression employee per the on-line records management system. D. Rank-for-Rank Overtime: The Department agrees that any day to day vacancies, not covered in MOU Section 23C, overtime will be assigned on a rank-for-rank basis unless an individual of equal rank is not available to fill the position; then a pre-signed up qualified actor will be used to prevent a mandate or prevent the breaking of staffing rules. These Short-Term Acting assignments are intended to fill day-to-day vacancies that are for 10-shifts or less. If there is no one available through the pre-sign up system, then mandatory overtime within the rank will be utilized. The operational procedures of acting assignments are outlined in department policy. In the case of an emergency and an officer and/or fire engineer is unavailable to be contacted, an acting assignment may be used to fill these ranks. The procedures 11