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B-239511 1 (1990-12-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbzn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Reimbursement of Selective Service Employee for Payment of Fine File: B-239511 Date: December-31, 1990 DIGESTS 1. Absent a clear and unambiguous law to the contrary, United States and its-activities are free from state regulation including payment of fines. Therefore, parking tickets are personal liability of employee responsible for their being issued. See court cases cited. 2. A Selective Service System (SSS) employee paid a $50 parking ticket written on a vehicle leased by SSS to prevent the ticket from doubling.. SSS determined that the paying employee was not the.party responsible for receipt of the ticket and did not identify another employee as responsible for receipt of ticket. Whether SSS may reimburse paying employee depends upon whether employee paid a valid obligation of the United States arising by virtue of the language in motor vehicle lease agreement whereby SSS as lessee agreed to not permit leased vehicle to be used in violation of District of Columbia law and regulations and that SSS would indemnify and hold lessor harmless from any and all . . . penalties resulting from violation of such laws. 3. Although the operator of vehicle is liable for payment of parking ticket, District of Columbia law makes owner of vehicle ultimately liable for payment of parking ticket. District law also provides that lessor of vehicle may - eliminate liability for parking tickets incurred by lessee. Therefore, whether employee who paid $50 ticket on assumption that agency was liable for such as damages to lessor under a hold-harmless clause in lease agreement paid an obligation,of the government for which employee may be reimbursed, depends upon whether lessor would have had to pay the ticket. Recues: is returned to agency with instruction to make determinaticn regarding lessor's liability since submission lacks requisite finding. DECISION This respond 'to a request from G. Huntington Banister, Comptroller, Selective Service System, (SSS) for a decision on whether SSS may reimburse an employee for paying to the District of Columbia Government a paring ticket written on a /PULISHD DECISION~ _____-Pl ____ rm Tn /~~

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