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38 U.S.C. § 8109 — Parking facilities
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**(a)** For the purpose of this section—
(1) The term “garage” means a structure (or part of a structure) in which vehicles may be parked.
(2) The term “parking facility” includes—
(A) a surface parking lot; and
(B) a garage.
(3) The term “eligible person” means an individual to whom the Secretary is authorized to furnish medical examination or treatment.
**(b)** In order to accommodate the vehicles of employees of medical facilities, vehicles used to transport veterans and eligible persons to or from such facilities for the purpose of examination or treatment, and the vehicles of visitors and other individuals having business at such facilities, the Secretary—
(1) may construct or alter parking facilities, and may acquire, by purchase, lease, condemnation, donation, exchange, or otherwise, such land or interests in land as the Secretary considers necessary for use as the site for any such construction or alteration;
(2) may acquire, by purchase, lease, condemnation, donation, exchange, or otherwise, any facility that the Secretary considers necessary for use as a parking facility;
(3) may operate and maintain parking facilities; and
(4) notwithstanding subsection (a) of [section 1344 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1344&num=0&edition=prelim), may use a passenger carrier (as such term is defined in subsection (h)(1) of such section) to transport such an employee between a parking facility and the medical facility of the Department at which the employee works.
**(c)**
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, each employee, visitor, and other individual having business at a medical facility for which parking fees have been established under subsection (d) or (e) of this section sha
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**(a)** For the purpose of this section—
(1) The term “garage” means a structure (or part of a structure) in which vehicles may be parked.
(2) The term “parking facility” includes—
(A) a surface parking lot; and
(B) a garage.
(3) The term “eligible person” means an individual to whom the Secretary is authorized to furnish medical examination or treatment.
**(b)** In order to accommodate the vehicles of employees of medical facilities, vehicles used to transport veterans and eligible persons to or from such facilities for the purpose of examination or treatment, and the vehicles of visitors and other individuals having business at such facilities, the Secretary—
(1) may construct or alter parking facilities, and may acquire, by purchase, lease, condemnation, donation, exchange, or otherwise, such land or interests in land as the Secretary considers necessary for use as the site for any such construction or alteration;
(2) may acquire, by purchase, lease, condemnation, donation, exchange, or otherwise, any facility that the Secretary considers necessary for use as a parking facility;
(3) may operate and maintain parking facilities; and
(4) notwithstanding subsection (a) of [section 1344 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1344&num=0&edition=prelim), may use a passenger carrier (as such term is defined in subsection (h)(1) of such section) to transport such an employee between a parking facility and the medical facility of the Department at which the employee works.
**(c)**
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, each employee, visitor, and other individual having business at a medical facility for which parking fees have been established under subsection (d) or (e) of this section shall be charged the applicable parking fee for the use of a parking facility at such medical facility.
(2) A parking fee shall not be charged under this subsection for the accommodation of any vehicle used to transport to or from a medical facility—
(A) a veteran or eligible person in connection with such veteran or eligible person seeking examination or treatment; or
(B) a volunteer worker (as determined in accordance with regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe) in connection with such worker performing services for the benefit of veterans receiving care at a medical facility.
(3) The Secretary shall collect (or provide for the collection of) parking fees charged under this subsection.
**(d)**
(1) For each medical facility where funds from the revolving fund described in subsection (h) of this section are expended for—
(A) a garage constructed or acquired by the Department at a cost exceeding $500,000 (or, in the case of acquisition by lease, $100,000 per year); or
(B) a project for the alteration of a garage at a cost exceeding $500,000,
the Secretary shall prescribe a schedule of parking fees to be charged at all parking facilities used in connection with such medical facility.
(2) The parking fee schedule prescribed for a medical facility referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be designed to establish fees which the Secretary determines are reasonable under the circumstances.
**(e)** The Secretary may prescribe a schedule of parking fees for the parking facilities at any medical facility not referred to in subsection (d) of this section. Any such schedule shall be designed to establish fees which the Secretary determines to be reasonable under the circumstances and shall cover all parking facilities used in connection with such medical facility.
**(f)** The Secretary may contract (by lease or otherwise) for the operation of parking facilities at medical facilities under such terms and conditions as the Secretary prescribes and may do so without regard to laws requiring full and open competition.
**(g)** Subject to subsections (h) and (i) of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as are necessary to finance (in whole or in part) the construction, alteration, and acquisition (including site acquisition) of parking facilities at medical facilities.
**(h)**
(1) Amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection (g) of this section and parking fees collected under subsection (c) of this section shall be administered as a revolving fund and shall be available without fiscal year limitation.
(2) The revolving fund shall be deposited in a checking account with the Treasurer of the United States.
(3)
(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, no funds other than funds from the revolving fund may be expended for the construction, alteration, or acquisition (including site acquisition) of a garage at a medical facility after September 30, 1986.
(B) Subparagraph (A) of this paragraph does not apply to the use of funds for investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, construction documents, specifications, and similar actions not directly involved in the physical construction of a structure.
**(i)**
(1) The expenditure of funds from the revolving fund may be made only for the construction, alteration, and acquisition (including site acquisition) of parking facilities at medical facilities and may be made only as provided for in appropriation Acts.
(2) For the purpose of [section 8104(a)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title38-section8104/a/2&num=0&edition=prelim), a bill, resolution, or amendment which provides that funds in the revolving fund (including any funds proposed in such bill, resolution, or amendment to be appropriated to the revolving fund) may be expended for a project involving a total expenditure of more than $4,000,000 for the construction, alteration, or acquisition (including site acquisition) of a parking facility or facilities at a medical facility shall be considered to be a bill, resolution, or amendment making an appropriation which may be expended for a major medical facility project.
**(j)** Funds in a construction account or capital account that are available for a construction project or a nonrecurring maintenance project may be used for the construction or relocation of a surface parking lot incidental to that project.
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**(a)**
(1) Funds available to a Federal agency, by appropriation or otherwise, may be expended by the Federal agency for the maintenance, operation, or repair of any passenger carrier only to the extent that such carrier is used to provide transportation for official purposes. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, transporting any individual other than the individuals listed in subsections (b) and (c) of this section between such individual’s residence and such individual’s place of employment is not transportation for an official purpose.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), transportation between the residence of an officer or employee and various locations that is—
(A) required for the performance of field work, in accordance with regulations prescribed pursuant to subsection (e) of this section, or
(B) essential for the safe and efficient performance of intelligence, counterintelligence, protective services, or criminal law enforcement duties, or transportation of federally owned canines associated with force protection duties of any part of the intelligence community (as defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ([50 U.S.C. 3003](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3003&num=0&edition=prelim))),
is transportation for an official purpose, when approved in writing by the head of the Federal agency.
(3) For purposes of paragraph (1), the transportation of an individual between such individual’s place of employment and a mass transit facility pursuant to subsection (g) is transportation for an official purpose.
**(b)** A passenger carrier may be used to transport between residence and place of employment the following officers and employees of Federal agencies:
(1)
(A) the President and the Vic
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For the purposes of this subchapter:
(1) The term “alter”, with respect to a medical facility, means to repair, remodel, improve, or extend such medical facility.
(2) The terms “construct” and “alter”, with respect to a medical facility, include such engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic investigations and studies and such surveys, designs, plans, construction documents, specifications, procedures, and other similar actions as are necessary for the construction or alteration, as the case may be, of such medical facility and as are carried out after the completion of the advanced planning (including the development of project requirements and design development) for such facility.
(3) The term “medical facility” means any facility or part thereof which is, or will be, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, or as otherwise authorized by law, for the provision of health-care services (including hospital, outpatient clinic, nursing home, or domiciliary care or medical services), including any necessary building and auxiliary structure, garage, parking facility, mechanical equipment, trackage facilities leading thereto, abutting sidewalks, accommodations for attending personnel, and recreation facilities associated therewith.
(4) The term “committee” means the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives or the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate, and the term “committees” means both such committees.
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**(a) Training Required.—** The head of each Federal executive agency shall provide training for the human resources personnel of such agency on the following:
(1) The rights, benefits, and obligations of members of the uniformed services under this chapter.
(2) The application and administration of the requirements of this chapter by such agency with respect to such members.
**(b) Consultation.—** The training provided under subsection (a) shall be developed and provided in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
**(c) Frequency.—** The training under subsection (a) shall be provided with such frequency as the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall specify in order to ensure that the human resources personnel of Federal executive agencies are kept fully and currently informed of the matters covered by the training.
**(d) Human Resources Personnel Defined.—** In this section, the term “human resources personnel”, in the case of a Federal executive agency, means any personnel of the agency who are authorized to recommend, take, or approve any personnel action that is subject to the requirements of this chapter with respect to employees of the agency.
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TITLE 38—VETERANS’ BENEFITS
§ 8109
of any medical facilities if the acquisition, construc-
tion, or alteration (not including exchange) was ap-
proved by the President before Oct. 1, 1979, see section
302 of Pub. L. 96–22, set out as a note under section 8101
of this title.
[§ 8107. Repealed. Pub. L. 111–163, title V,
§ 501(b)(1), May 5, 2010, 124 Stat. 1157]
Section, added Pub. L. 96–22, title III, § 301(a), June 13,
1979, 93 Stat. 58, § 5007; amended Pub. L. 99–166, title III,
§ 302(a)–(c)(1), Dec. 3, 1985, 99 Stat. 955; Pub. L. 99–576,
title II, § 222, Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3259; renumbered
§ 8107 and amended Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1),
(d)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238, 239; Pub. L. 102–54,
§ 14(f)(3), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 287; Pub. L. 102–83,
§ 4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405; Pub. L.
102–405, title III, § 302(c)(1), Oct. 9, 1992, 106 Stat. 1984;
Pub. L. 104–262, title II, § 204, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3188;
Pub. L. 105–368, title X, § 1005(b)(18), Nov. 11, 1998, 112
Stat. 3365; Pub. L. 108–170, title II, § 203, Dec. 6, 2003, 117
Stat. 2048, related to operational and construction
plans for medical facilities.
§ 8108. Contributions to local authorities
The Secretary may make contributions to
local authorities toward, or for, the construc-
tion of traffic controls, road improvements, or
other devices adjacent to a medical facility if
considered necessary for safe ingress or egress.
(Added Pub. L. 96–22, title III, § 301(a), June 13,
1979, 93 Stat. 58, § 5008; renumbered § 8108, Pub. L.
102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat.
238; amended Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug.
6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405.)
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