Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7105 – Establishment and use of a statewide fleet management system
(a) The Office of Management and Budget, Government Support Services shall establish and operate a Statewide Fleet Management System (“fleet system”). This fleet system shall be composed of all passenger vehicles used by every agency, except for those vehicles exempted by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Passenger vehicles as used in this section includes sedans, station wagons, passenger and utility vans, off-road vehicles and trucks rated 10,000 GVW or less.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7105
- agency: when used in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7101
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) Each agency shall, within 30 days of a request from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, deliver to Government Support Services any passenger vehicle and its title for inclusion in the fleet system. If such vehicles were purchased with nonappropriated special funds that require the proceeds of the disposition of the vehicle to be returned to the agency or nonappropriated special funds source, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide the agency with credits in the amount of the then current value of the vehicle to be used toward the agency’s vehicle lease expenses.
(c) No agency shall lease passenger vehicles except from Government Support Services. Exempt from this subsection are the Governor’s car, agency employees traveling on out-of-state business, and Government Support Services.
(d) Government Support Services, in cooperation with the Department of Technology and Information and the Division of Accounting, shall implement the systems and procedures to enable the direct, electronic transfer of funds from customers of the fleet system to an account designated by Government Support Services. Customers shall be required to furnish Government Support Services with a Purchase Order by August 1 of each year that encumbers funds for the rental of vehicles for that entire fiscal year. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget may exempt agencies from this subsection.
(e) Each agency shall appoint 1 individual to serve as the agency’s vehicle representative. It is the responsibility of the head of each agency to ensure that the vehicle representative completes and submits all vehicle reports as required by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. It is also the responsibility of each agency head to ensure that the employees of his or her respective agency follow the polices concerning the fleet system.
(f) Law-enforcement vehicles and vessels of State agency law-enforcement personnel covered under the provisions of the Delaware Council on Police Training, owned by school districts shall be exempt from subsections (a) and (b) of this section.
69 Del. Laws, c. 136, § ?4; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 274, § ?4; 73 Del. Laws, c. 143, §§ ?6, 15; 74 Del. Laws, c. 128, § ?6; 75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §§ ?16(5), 22(4);