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B-234603 1 (1989-08-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnno0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~o~~LZA ~ The Comptroller General of te United States - C-- Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Purchase of Business Cards by Fee-For-Service Matterof: Nonappropriated Data Processing Facility File: B-234603 Date: August ii, 1989 DIGEST The Parklawn Computer Center, Department of Health and Human Services, may not use its funds to purchase business cards for its employees. Business or calling cards are personal in nature, and may not be purchased using appropriated funds without statutory authority. The fees that Parklawn collects from other agencies are appropriated funds because it has statutory authority to collect and use them to cover its expenses. DECISION The Director, Parklawn Computer Center, Department of Health and Human Services, has requested our opinion as to the propriety of using funds received on a fee-for-service basis for the purchase of business cards. Specifically, the Director has asked whether the Center's unique situation as a fee-for-service non-appropriated data processing facility is such that an exception to the rule regarding the use of public funds for the purchase of calling or business cards for government employees is appropriate. The long standing rule has been that the cost of official calling cards constitutes a personal rather than an official expense of the employee or officer for whose use they are procured and that such costs are not chargeable under appropriated money in the absence of specific statutory authority therefor. 12 Comp. Gen. 565 (1933). The expense is considered personal in nature, even though it is incurred in connection with an employee's duties. See 41 Comp. Gen. 529 (1962). Therefore, in the absence of specific statutory authority, Parklawn may not use appropriated funds to procure, or to reimburse employees for their personal purchases, of business cards. t '4(, c I -d/ 1361 310

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