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QUESTION:

Can the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and Department of Transportation serve inspectors driving their private automobiles through state-operated gasoline stations where adequate accounting procedures exist?

SUMMARY:

In the absence of statutory authority, express or necessarily implied, state-owned and operated "G" stations that dispense gasoline to state-owned equipment and motor vehicles on state credit cards should not be authorized to sell gasoline to state employees for use in operating their privately owned vehicles in carrying out their official duties.

Under…