A. All state vehicle purchases shall be pursuant to the provisions of the Procurement Code [13-1-28 to 13-1-199 NMSA 1978]. All purchases of state vehicles, even those not assigned to the motor pool, shall be approved by the director.
B. Subject to legislative appropriations and directives and the approval of the secretary, the director shall determine the type and number of state vehicles to be purchased each year and how they shall be equipped.
History: Laws 1994, ch. 119, § 7.
ANNOTATIONSPurchase through budget transfers. — This section does not provide that motor vehicle purchases may be approved only if specifically provided in the agency budget in its originally approved form, and where the general appropriation act gives the state budget division the authority to increase agency budgets and to transfer funds between budget categories, vehicle acquisitions may be provided either in the originally approved operating budget submitted by the state agency to the state budget division and then provided to the legislature, or in the approval budget as amended by approved budget transfers and increases that the state budget division approves, provided that the budget and any amendments to it must provide that the funds are to be used specifically for the purchase or lease of motor vehicles. 1987 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 87-32 (rendered under former 15-3-26 NMSA 1978).
Budget transfers effect on legislature's appropriation authority. — The use of budget adjustment requests to place funds in the capital outlay budget category for the purpose of purchasing vehicles does not infringe upon or usurp the legislature's authority to make agency appropriations. 1987 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 87-32 (rendered under former 15-3-26 NMSA 1978).
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Use of automobile as corporate or governmental function, 110 A.L.R. 1117, 156 A.L.R. 714.
81A C.J.S. States § 145.