Reading Room Document

Transportation of Executive Branch Officials by Government Passenger Motor Vehicles

The document discusses the transportation of executive branch officials by government passenger motor vehicles, as governed by 31 U.S.C. § 638a. It outlines the exceptions for home-to-work transportation, including medical officers on out-patient medical service, officers engaged in field work, and official use of the President and heads of executive departments. The document also presents questions for review, such as the scope of the Comptroller General's implied exception to § 638a(c)(2), the authorization of home-to-work transportation by appropriations, and the application of the statute to independent regulatory agencies. The conclusions reached in the document include a narrow scope for the Comptroller General's exception, the lack of implicit authorization for home-to-work transportation in appropriations, and the application of the statute to independent regulatory agencies, with the President empowered to promulgate implementing regulations.

August 27, 1979