New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 1 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 5 - PUBLIC PROPERTY PROCUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Part 3 - ADMINISTRATION AND USE OF STATE VEHICLES
Section 1.5.3.25 - UNDER-UTILIZATION OF STATE VEHICLES
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
The director or designee may re-allocate state vehicles that are being under-utilized.
A. The director or designee shall analyze monthly leased state vehicle mileage statistics.
B. The director or designee may rotate state vehicles within an agency or between agencies if it is determined that a state agency is under or over utilizing an assigned vehicle. The director or designee will notify the state agency of such occurrences and recommend the rotation. The director or designee in conjunction with the state agency will make the appropriate changes to the location of the leased state vehicle.
C. If the director or designee finds that a leased state motor vehicle is accumulating low mileage, the director or designee will notify the state agency in writing that a state vehicle assigned to it is being under-utilized.
D. The state agency shall examine its utilization of the state vehicle and respond in writing justifying to the director or designee its need for the state vehicle and describing its intra-agency vehicle rotation plan. If the state agency does not provide such a plan, the director or designee will rotate vehicles among state agencies.
E. The director or designee will continuously monitor mileage utilization of the leased state vehicles. If the agency's use of the leased state motor vehicle does not increase, the director or designee may recall the vehicle or replace it with a state vehicle that has more mileage.
F. The director or designee will consider under-utilization of state vehicles when evaluating a state agency's requests for additional or different vehicles.
