Columbia Meal allowance; job site meal compensation ordinance (§ 19-100)
Chapter 19: Personnel Policies, Procedures, Rules and Regulations · Article IV. Compensation and Benefits
(a) Eligible fire department employees on a fifty-six-hour week schedule shall be allowed fourteen dollars ($14.00) per day for meal reimbursements for days actually worked. Eligible airport fire/safety officers on a sixteen-hour shift assignment shall be allowed nine dollars and thirty-three cents ($9.33) per day for
meal allowance for days actually worked.
(b) Except as otherwise indicated, an overtime eligible employee shall be allowed an allowance of eleven dollars ($11.00) for a meal after having worked a continuous two (2) hours in excess of the employee's regular shift of at least eight (8) hours without time off for meals. An additional meal allowance of eleven dollars ($11.00) will be allowed for every five (5) consecutive hours worked thereafter. Individuals on continuous sixteen- or twenty-four-hour shift assignments shall be exempt from this provision.
Official source: City of Columbia official Code of Ordinances (online): look up Sec. 19-100
Text from Supplement 139 (September 3, 2026).
Last checked November 1, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.