In the event of a death of a family member of a regular full-time or regular part-time employee, including those serving the initial probationary period, three working days off to a maximum of 24 hours with pay shall be granted to grieve the loss of a family member, attend the funeral or complete burial arrangements for each death which occurs. A regular part-time employee shall receive a pro-rata share of bereavement leave based on the employee's standard hours in a work week. The family members to whom this Section applies are spouse, domestic partner, parent, foster parent, sibling, child, foster child, grandparent, or grandchild of the employee and like relatives of the spouse/domestic partner of the employee, or other person with whom the employee had lived in loco parentis, and like relatives of the spouse/domestic partner of the employee. Family members also include biological, adopted, step, in-law or foster members. For purposes of this Chapter, "in loco parentis" shall mean those persons who had day-to-day responsibility to care for and financially support the employee on a long-term basis, when the employee was a child. Proof of such relationship may be required. A biological or legal relationship is not necessary. An additional three days of other accrued leave, per occurrence, may be used for bereavement purposes where the employee is required to travel out-of-state to attend the funeral or complete the final arrangements. Such leave may be authorized by the department director or designee in writing. (See also PCC 3.76.035, Use of Accrued Leave for Bereavement Purposes.) Bereavement leave may be used up to 14 calendar days prior to or up to 30 calendar days after the death of the eligible family member at the employee's option, or when authorized for a different time frame by the Human Resources Director due to extenuating circumstances such as when funeral/memorial services are planned more than 30 days after the death.