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City of Arden Hills Personnel Policy Effective Fcbruary 29,201-56 FMLA--QUALIFIED EXIGENCY AND MILITARY CAREGIVER LEAVE Qualified Exigency Eligible employees described*be"12reviously under FML_ , whose spouse, son, daughter or parent either has been notified of an impending call or order to covered active mihtar3duty or who is already on covered active duty may take up to 12 weeks of leave for reasons related to or affected by the family member's call-up or service The qualifying exigency must be one of the following: (1) short-notice deployment Military events and activities 3) child care and school activities (3) financial and legal arrangements,5)counseling 6)rest and recuperation,(7)nest-deployment activities and 8) additional activities that arise out of active duty,provided that the employer and employee agree,including agreement on timing and duration of the leave Milita Caregiver Leave: An employee eligible for FMI.t1 leave (described ale,tepreviously under F\MLA)who is the spouse son daughter,or parent or next of kin of a covered servicemember may take up to 26 weeks in a single 12-month period to take care of leave to care for that servicemember. The family member must be a current member of the Armed Forces including a member of the National Guard or Reserves or a member of the.Armed Forces the National Guard or Reserves who is on the temporary disability retired list who has a serious injury or illness incurred in the line of du6I on active duty for which he or she is undergoing medical treatment,recuperation or therapy' or otherwise in outpatient status; or otherwise on the temporary disability retired list Eligible employees may not take leave under this provision to care for former members of the:armed Forces former members of the National Guard and Reserves,and members on the permanent disability-retired list Definitions: 1"son or daughter of a covered senicemember"means the covered servicemember's biological, adopted, or foster child, stepchild, legal ward or a child for whom the covered servicemember stood in loco parentis,and who is of any age. A"parent of a covered servicemember"means a covered servicemember's biological adoptive, step or foster father or mother,or any other individual who stood in loco parentis to the covered senicemember.This term does not include parents"in law." The"next of kin of a covered servicemember"is the nearest blood relative other than the covered sen-icemember's spouse,parent son,or daughter,in the following order of priority:blood relatives who have been granted legal custody of the servicemember by court decree or statutory provisions brothers and sisters,grandparents,aunts and uncles,and first cousins,unless the covered servicemember has specifically designated in writing another blood relative as his or her nearest blood relative for purposes of military caregiver leave under the FML. . When no such designation is made and 53