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B-250880 1 (1992-11-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacsna0001 and id is 1 raw text is: C4 United sttae Gmeal Aondag Offle e t te GmrW Couad B-250880 November 3, 1992 The Honorable Ralph Regula Member, United States House of Representatives 4150 Belden Village Street Canton, Ohio 44718 Dear Mr. Regula: This responds to your letter of Septermbe; 8, 1991, regarding the liability of federal government employees for paying parking tickets pursuant to local traffic ordinances. Specifically, you ask whether a federal government employee, such as a military recruiter, can assert immunity from paying parking meter fees or fines imposed for parking meter violations. We understand that a military recruiter has asserted immunity from paying a parking meter fine levied by A city in your district. The recruiter apparently has provided the city with material representing the Comptroller General as concluding that parking meter fees may not be imposed on the government or the employee driving a government-owned vehicle. The material does not fully and accurately reflect the current views of our Office on this matter .' You refer to 46 Comp. Gen. 24 (1967), in which we held that appropriated funds may be used to reimburse federal employees who are required to pay street parking umeter fees while driving government-owned vehicles on official business, except where an impermissible burden would be imposed on the federal government. We stated that the requirement to pay a meter fee (where such fee is not a tax) incident to parking a government-owned vehicle on a public street would not impose an impermissible burden on the federal government. Our decision at 46 Comp. Gen.X624 should not be read as authorizing the use of appropriated funds to pay a fine imposed on a government employee for a parking violation or other traffic offense committed while driving a government- 'The citations to our Office's decisions in the recruiter's material are not discernable. Accordingly, we do not address them directly.

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