§ 217 - Passenger vehicles; sale - Vermont Statutes

§ 217. Passenger vehicles; sale

(a) No state department or agency, board, or commission, except the governor, the commissioner of buildings and general services, and the commissioners of the departments of fish and wildlife and of public safety for use of employees who are sworn law enforcement officers, may maintain or provide passenger vehicles, subject to such exceptions as may be made by the commissioner of buildings and general services in circumstances where there is documented evidence of necessity based upon the requirements or conditions of individual state programs.

(b) The department of buildings and general services of the agency of administration shall dispose of all cars owned by the state except those cars which are determined by the secretary of administration to be necessary to the operations of individual state programs under subsection (a) of this section. All money which has been budgeted in any fiscal year for the maintenance of those vehicles and the proceeds from the sale of those vehicles shall be applied to the future replacement of the state fleet. Any unspent balance shall revert to the general fund.

(c) At least 50 percent of the vehicles purchased annually by the commissioner shall be low emission passenger vehicles. (Added 1975, No. 118, § 62, eff. April 30, 1975; amended 1983, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), eff. April 13, 1984; 1989, No. 210 (Adj. Sess.), § 42; 1995, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 4(c)(2), eff. May 6, 1996; 2003, No. 121 (Adj. Sess.), § 44, eff. June 8, 2004.)