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¹287.161  Executive aircraft pool; assignment of aircraft; charge for transportation.--

(1)  There is created within the ²Bureau of Aircraft an executive aircraft pool consisting of state-owned aircraft for the purpose of furnishing executive air travel. Such aircraft shall not be a model in excess of a two-engine jet. Aircraft included in the executive aircraft pool may not be specifically assigned to any department or agency on any basis.

(2)  The ²Bureau of Aircraft shall charge all persons receiving transportation from the executive aircraft pool a rate not less than the mileage allowance fixed by the Legislature for the use of privately owned vehicles. However, state employees traveling on a space-available basis may not be charged more than the vehicle mileage allowance.

(3)  Fees collected for persons traveling by aircraft in the executive aircraft pool shall be deposited into the Bureau of Aircraft Trust Fund and shall be expended for fuel, maintenance, or other costs incurred in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to s. 287.16.

History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 72-207; s. 4, ch. 83-304; s. 1, ch. 89-9.

¹Note.--Section 1, ch. 97-144, provides that "[t]he Bureau of Aircraft Trust Fund, which was created within the Department of Management Services and which is to be terminated pursuant to Section 19(f), Article III of the State Constitution on November 4, 2000, is hereby re-created."

²Note.--Deleted in the reorganization of the Department of Management Services by s. 3, ch. 97-296. Section 4, ch. 97-296, requires the Division of Statutory Revision to prepare a reviser's bill for submission to the 1998 Regular Session of the Legislature substituting references to the Department of Management Services in the Florida Statutes for references to divisions, bureaus, or other units of that department.