Chap. 263.—An ACT to prescribe the powers and duties of the Governor and of
other State officers, agents and employees with respect to the purchase, use,
storage, maintenance and repair of State-owned motor vehicles, and means for
the enforcement of rules and regulations prescribed with respect thereto; to
ratify certain actions heretofore taken under certain executive orders and regu-
lations ; and to appropriate certain funds for the purposes of this act. [S B 186]

Approved March 18, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:

Section 1. The Governor shall have the power to prescribe, by
general or special executive orders, rules and regulations for the pur-
chase, use, storage, maintenance and repair of all motor vehicles owned
by the Commonwealth, and in the possession of any department, institu-
tion or agency thereof, his supervision over which is not forbidden by the
Constitution. If in his judgment considerations of economy or convenience
indicate the expediency thereof, he may require all such vehicles, or such
of them as he may designate, to be kept in such garages, or other places of
storage, and to be made available in such manner and under such terms
for the official use of such departments, institutions, agencies, officers,
agents and employees of the State, as he may designate in any such gen-
eral or special order.

Section 2. If any such State officer, agent or employee fails to com-

ply with any rule, regulation or order of the Govergor made pursuant
to the provisions of this act, the Comptroller shall, upon order of the
Governor, refuse to issue any warrant or warrants on account of expenses
incurred, or to be incurred, in the purchase, operation, maintenance, or re-
pair of any motor vehicle now or to be in the possession or under the con-
trol of such officer, agent or employee, or the Governor may order some
officer or agent of the State to take possession of any such vehicle and to
transfer it to some other department, institution, agency, officer, agent or
employee, or to make such other disposition thereof as the Governor may
direct.
Section 3. The Governor may utilize any building or land owned
by the State and not required to be used for other purposes, for the stor-
ing and garaging of such motor vehicles. He may provide for the em-
ployment of watchmen or guards, and also mechanics and other labor
to repair and service said vehicles, and for the purchase of gasoline, oil,
and other supplies for use in connection therewith, and provide for the
allocation among the various departments and agencies utilizing same of
their proper proportionate part of the cost of such repairs, servicing, gaso-
line, oil, and other supplies.

Section 4. The Governor is hereby authorized to create in the
Treasurer’s office a special fund to be reflected on the books of the Comp-
troller, out of which all costs and expenses incurred pursuant to this act
shall be paid. All allocations of costs and charges for repairing and servic-
ing motor vehicles made against any institution, agency, or department
shall, when approved by the department head against which same is made,
be paid into said special fund by interdepartmental transfers on the Comp-
troller’s books. All funds so paid or transferred into said special fund are
hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act and shall be paid out on
warrants of the Comptroller issued upon vouchers signed by such officer
or employee of the State as the Governor may designate.

Section 5. The Governor is authorized by executive order or regula-
tion to impose upon the Director of the Division of Grounds and Build-
ings, or any other agency of the Executive Department of the Govern-
ment, any or all administrative duties pertaining to the administration of
this act.

Section 6. All proper charges for repairing and servicing motor ve-
hicles which have heretofore been incurred by any department, agency, or
institution in connection with the garaging, servicing, and repairing of
State cars under any former executive order and the regulations inci-
dent thereto, shall be paid by every such department, institution, or agency
into the said special fund provided for in section four hereof when same
is established by the Governor.

' Section 7. All actions of the Director af Grounds and Buildings
taken pursuant to any such former executive order and regulations are
hereby ratified.
Section 8. An emergency exists and this act shall be in force from
its passage.