2.2-120 - Powers with respect to state-owned motor vehicles.

§ 2.2-120. Powers with respect to state-owned motor vehicles.

A. The Governor may prescribe, by general or special executive orders,regulations for the purchase, use, storage, maintenance and repair of allmotor vehicles owned by the Commonwealth, and in the possession of any statedepartment, institution or agency where his supervision is not forbidden bythe Constitution.

B. The Governor may use any building or land owned by the Commonwealth, andnot required to be used for other purposes, for storing and garagingstate-owned motor vehicles. He may employ watchmen or guards, mechanics andother labor to repair and service such vehicles, and provide for the purchaseof gasoline, oil and other supplies for such vehicles, and allocate among thevarious departments and agencies using such vehicles their proportionate partof the cost of repairs, servicing, gasoline, oil, and other supplies.

C. The Governor may create in the State Treasurer's office a special fund tobe reflected on the books of the Comptroller, out of which all costs andexpenses incurred pursuant to this section shall be paid. All allocations ofcosts and charges for repairing and servicing motor vehicles made against anyinstitution, agency, or department shall, when approved by the departmenthead, be paid into the special fund by interdepartmental transfers on theComptroller's books. All funds so paid or transferred into the special fundare appropriated for the purposes of this section and shall be paid out onwarrants of the Comptroller issued upon vouchers signed by the state officeror employee designated by the Governor.

D. The Governor may, by executive order or regulation, impose upon theDirector of the Department of Planning and Budget, or any other agency of theexecutive branch of the state government, any or all administrative dutiespertaining to the administration of this section.

E. If any state officer, agent or employee fails to comply with any rule,regulation or order of the Governor made pursuant to this section, theComptroller shall, upon order of the Governor, refuse to issue any warrant onaccount of expenses incurred, or to be incurred in the purchase, operation,maintenance, or repair of any motor vehicle now or to be in the possession orunder the control of such officer, agent or employee, or the Governor mayorder some state officer or agent to take possession of the vehicle andtransfer it to some other department, institution, agency, officer, agent oremployee, or to make such other disposition as the Governor may direct.

(Code 1950, § 2-42; 1966, c. 677, § 2.1-47; 2001, c. 844.)