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B-231981 1 (1989-05-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnlh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: +0'A The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Alan Pacanowski - Reimbursement of Fines for Traffic Violations File: B-231981 Date: May 19, 1989 DIGEST Department of the Army employee who paid fines to Panamanian police for allegedly fictitious traffic violations while on temporary duty in Panama may not be reimbursed by the government for the fines as expenses of official travel. Ordinarily fines are considered personal to the employee and payment of them is his personal responsibility. However, in view of the unusual circumstances the employee describes concerning these fines, the claim may be appropriate for consideration by the Army under the Military Personnel and Civilian Employees Claims Act of 1964. DECISION This is in response to a request for an advance decision from Mr. Paul J. Dominick, Finance and Accounting Officer, Headquarters Tobyhanna Army Depot.l/ Mr. Dominick asks whether he may use appropriated funds to reimburse an Army employee, Mr. Alan Pacanowski, for fines Mr. Pacanowski paid for allegedly fictitious traffic violations while on temporary duty in Panama. For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that Mr. Pacanowski may not be reimbursed for this purpose from temporary duty travel expense funds. However, his claim may be presented to his agency for consideration under the Military Personnel and Civilian Employees Claims Act of 1964, 31 U.S.C. S 3721, as a claim for loss of personal funds incident to service. Mr. Pacanowski was in Panama on a temporary duty assignment from April 9 through April 29, 1987. He states that on April 14, 1987, while driving en route to a training l/ The request for decision was forwarded to our Office by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee which assigned it Control No. 88-9. Ce-4CcZ i3S7oL/

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