(1)
Purpose.
The executive aircraft pool is established within the Bureau
of Aircraft to provide a means of travel which can enable officials and
employees to maximize the productivity of their offices by limiting
non-productive travel time.
The aircraft assigned shall be of a type capable of safe and
reliable flight during night or instrument conditions. They shall be available
on request either to meet pre-planned trip requirements, or those of an
unforeseen or emergency nature.
(2) Appropriate use.
It shall be the responsibility of the head of any agency or
legislative entity requesting the use of, or requesting travel in, an aircraft
of the executive aircraft pool, to ensure that all such use or travel is in
compliance with state law. Agency records maintained shall provide evidence of
such compliance.
(3)
Scheduling.
(a) Top priority for use of the
jet aircraft shall be for the Governor's travel and state economic development
purposes.
(b) Other trip requests
will be scheduled on a first-call, first-served basis, except that when an
insufficient number of aircraft are available, the following scheduling
priorities will be exercised:
First priority-the Governor, the Lt. Governor, a Cabinet
Officer, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the
Senate, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Second priority - Justices of the Supreme Court, appointed
secretaries and executive directors of the executive branch, chairpersons of
standing committees of the Legislature, and the chairpersons of the Public
Service Commission and the Parole Commission.
Third priority - other authorized
persons.
(4)
Planning and coordination.
(a) Agency heads
shall designate and limit the number of persons authorized to make arrangements
for use of aircraft in the executive aircraft pool.
(b) The designees shall advise the executive
aircraft pool office of the identity of all persons to be carried, the agency
codes to be charged, the tentative destinations, and the dates and times of the
planned travel. For the purpose of enabling the pool to establish charges
consistent with Chapter 287, Part II, F.S., the agency designee shall also
advise the executive pool office whenever a person to be transported is in one
of the following categories:
1. Candidates
for public office who will be performing any function in furtherance of their
candidacy.
2. Persons traveling for
purposes consistent with, but not necessarily constituting, state
business.
3. Persons traveling for
purposes other than official state business.
(c) Revised approvals or revised plans as to
aircraft departure times, enroute stops, or passenger identities which occur
too late to be communicated to the executive aircraft office shall be
communicated to the aircraft pilot by the agency designee or by the agency
senior person traveling.
(d)
Documentation of the information furnished to the executive aircraft pool
pursuant to subsections (a), (b) and (c) shall be maintained in the records of
any agency or legislative entity who approves and is furnished such
transportation.
(5)
Charges.
(a) Any state agency or legislative
entity that is furnished transportation or other aircraft services by an
executive pool aircraft shall be charged for the expenses of such aircraft
operation.
(b) Such expenses and
charges shall be calculated in accordance with the formula set forth in
subsection
60B-4.004(3),
F.A.C., of this chapter.
(c)
Payment for all transportation or other aircraft use shall become due when
invoiced.
Notes
Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 60B-4.006
Rulemaking Authority
287.16(6),
287.161 FS. Law Implemented
106.15,
287.161,
287.17
FS.
New 11-28-83, Formerly 13B-6.06, Amended 5-18-87,
6-7-89, Formerly 13B-6.006.
New 11-28-83, Formerly 13B-6.06, Amended 5-18-87, 6-7-89,
Formerly 13B-6.006.
