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USE OF AUTOMOBILES FOR NONOFFICIAL FOEPOSIS
Excerpt from Act of Congress of August 2, 1946
"(c) Unless otherwise specifically provided, no appropriation
available for any department shall be expended-tf
(l) to purchase any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of
busses, ambulances, and station wagons), at a cost, completely
equipped for operation, and including the value of any vehicle
exchanged, in excess of the maximum price therefor, if any,
established pursuant to law by a Government agency and in no
event more than such amount as may be specified in an appropriation or other Act, which shall be in addition to the amount required for transportation;
"(2) for the maintenance, operation, and repair of any Government-owned passenger motor vehicle or aircraft not used exclusively
it for official purposes; and f official purposes* shall not include
{the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles
11 and places of employment, except in cases of medical officers on
out-patient medical service and except in cases of officers and
employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties
makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such
latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the departm e n t concerned. Any officer or employee of the Government who fj
I/willfully uses or authorizes the use of any Government-owned
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II passenger motor vehicle or aircraft, or of any passenger motor \)
IIvehicle or aircraft leased by the Government, for other than
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official purposes or otherwise violates the provisions of this /(
Jparagraph shall be suspended from duty by the head of the deJ)
Jpartment concerned, without compensation, for not less than one 1
I/month, and shall be suspended for a longer period or summarily 1/
J'removed from office if circumstances warrant* The limitations If
of this paragraph shall not apply to any motor vehicles or
aircraft for official use of the President, the heads of the
executive departments enumerated in 5 U. S. C. 1, ambassadors,
ministers, charges d'affaires, and other principal diplomatic
and consular officials.
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Sec. 18. The word fdepartment1 as used in this Act shall be
construed to include independent establishments * * * * . ยป
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