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B-207665 1 (1983-04-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkzi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-2076 MATTER OF: DIGEST: 1. (1 65 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED BTATE8 WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 DATE: April 1, 1983 Adam W. Mink Although it is held that a boat may qualify as a mobile dwelling under 5 U.S.C. S 5724(b), an employee who purchased a sailboat to be occupied as his residence incident to permanent change of station is not entitled to freight charges in transporting the boat from the place of construction to the delivery site where it was launched since the employee was not the owner of the boat at the time it was transported. 2. Employee may be reimbursed in connection with the purchase of a sailboat to be occupied as a residence upon transfer of station those expenses which would be reimbursed in connection with the pur- chase of a residence on land. Expenses necessary for the operation of utilities and of launching the boat may be reim- bursed as miscellaneous expenses under FTR para. 2-3.1b. The Accounting and Finance Officer, Defense Mapping Agency, requests our decision on whether a transferred employee may be reimbursed for freight and commissioning expenses incurred in the purchase of a boat used as his residence at his new duty station. Payment of freight from place of construction to delivery location is not authorized since the boat was not owned by the employee at the time it was transported, but expenses incident to the launching of the boat and for adjustments necessary in the boat's electrical system may be reimbursed as part of the miscellaneous expenses allowance. Mr. Adam W. Mink, an employee of the Defense Mapping Agency, was transferred from St. Louis, Mis- souri, to Washington, D.C. In connection with his permanent change-of-station move, he purchased a sailboat to be used as his residence at his new duty station. His claim for reimbursement of expenses in- curred incident to purchase of that residence includes

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