§ 181-105. Vehicle use; restrictions.

(a)

Public safety officers notwithstanding, no employee shall use vehicles owned or leased by the city or county for personal purposes, and use of such vehicles shall be in accordance with the policies established in the "City of Indianapolis-Marion County Fleet Policies and Procedures" manual or its equivalent.

(b)

With the permission of the director of public works or elected official, city/county employees who are on call outside of regular work hours may be allowed to receive take-home vehicles. The use of take-home vehicles shall be strictly limited to commuting to and from work. In order to receive a take-home vehicle, it must be contemplated that an employee will drive a minimum of ten thousand (10,000) miles annually.

(c)

Any emergency services employee of the city or county authorized use of a qualified non-personal use vehicle as a working condition benefit in accordance with the Internal Revenue Service guidelines and by this section or by Section 279-227, eligibility for take-home car, of this Code shall be charged an annual fuel charge in an amount fixed by a fuel board. Said fuel board shall consist of the director of public works, whom will be chair, director of the office of public health and safety, the Chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, the sheriff, the city controller and representatives of the FOP and Indianapolis Professional Firefighters Union Local 416. Annual fuel charge shall be approved by the public works committee of the city-county council. The amount so determined shall be deducted from the employee's salary at the rate of 1/26 bi-weekly and the amounts so withheld shall be used only for the purchase of automobile fuel. The amount of the surcharge shall be annually reviewed and fixed at the time of consideration and adoption of the annual budgets of the affected departments, offices and agencies. In lieu of paying the surcharge, any employee may opt not to have a take-home vehicle. This fuel board shall make a recommendation of fuel surcharge to the public works committee of the city-council council by December 1 annually.

(d)

Each city department and county agency shall file a list of employees authorized to receive take-home vehicles in the office of the director of the department of public works, and each city department and county agency shall maintain and file updated lists as changes are made. The list of authorized employees shall include the employee's name, the make and model of the take-home vehicle assigned to the employee, and the take-home vehicle's odometer reading (taken at the last vehicle transaction activity on or before May 31). The director of the department of public works shall file with the council a copy of the list of authorized employees with take-home vehicles on or before May 31 of each year.

(G.O. 45, 2007, § 1; G.O. 83-2008, § 1; G.O 13, 2016, § 9)