Section 2
SEC. 2. Section two hundred and eighty-eight of said Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 288. Commutation of salary for persons on leave.-In favor of persons on accrued leave or teacher's leave, the proper Department Head may, in his discretion, direct a commutation of the salary that would be received during the period of leave and lieu of the payment of such salary in usual course authorize the payment, from the fund out of which the salary would have been paid, of an equivalent sum in gross on or before the beginning of such leave or vacation."