(A) (1) County officeholders and employees entitled to receive reimbursement for mileage driven on county businesses shall submit truthful and accurate claims.
(2) Any such claim shall only request payment for actual mileage driven on county business.
(3) Each person filing a claim must specify his or her actual starting and finishing points for each trip for which mileage is claimed.
(4) No one shall be reimbursed for any mileage incurred in commuting to and from their usual work place.
(5) Every officeholder and/or employer shall establish a usual work place for each mileage claimant which shall not be the claimant’s home.
(6) Each officeholder, employer, and employee shall conduct themselves and county business in such a way so as to limit the county’s liability for the payment of mileage as much as is reasonably possible.
(7) The submission of a mileage claim known to be false by the person submitting it is grounds for immediate termination of employment.
(B) Unless otherwise established by the Lake County Council, the county’s mileage rate per mile for county employees duly entitled to same shall be the equivalent of the optional standard mileage rate used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business mileage as periodically determined by the Internal Revenue Service.
(C) (1) Payment of mileage with respect to County travel shall be made in compliance with this mileage section.
(2) Mileage shall be allowed from an employee’s home base, home base being the address where the employee works, or from the employee’s home, whichever is the lesser amount of miles.
(3) A county employee is entitled to payment of mileage under the terms and conditions as set forth in the County’s Human Resources Manual.
(D) The Lake County Council establishes the rate of $0.65.5 per mile for county employees entitled to receive mileage expenses for the use of their vehicles for the year 2021.
(Prior Code, § 35.07) (Ord. 1051B, passed 7-12-1988; Ord. 1121D, passed 9-7-1993; Ord. 1134F, passed 9-6-1994; Ord. 1146E, passed 9-5-1995; Ord. 1170H, passed 9-2-1997; Ord. 1177A, passed 2-10-1998; Ord. 1182E, passed 9-8-1998; Ord. 1182E-1, passed 8-10-1999; Ord. 1195G, passed 9-14-1999; Ord. 1207E, passed 9-12-2000; Ord. 1213B, passed 3-13-2001; Ord. 1218G, passed 9-12-2001; Ord. 1231E, passed 9-10-2002; Ord. 1243E, passed 9-4-2003; Ord. 1243E-1, passed 4-13-2004; Ord. 1255E, passed 9-7-2004; Ord. 1255E-1, passed 12-14-2004; Ord. 1267E, passed 9-8-2005; Ord. 1255E-2, passed 9-26-2005; Ord. 1267E-1, passed 1-10-2006; Ord. 1279E, passed 9-5-2006; Ord. 1279E-1, passed 1-9-2007; 1294C, passed 12-11-2007; Ord. 1294C-1, passed 7-8-2008; Ord. 1306D, passed 12-9-2008; Ord. 1318B, passed 12-8-2009; Ord. 1330A, passed 12-14-2010; Ord. 1330A-1, passed 7-20-2011; Ord. 1342C, passed 12-21-2011; Ord. 1355I, passed 12-11-2012; Ord. 1380A, passed 1-13-2015; Ord. 1392A, passed 1-12-2016; Ord. 1403D, passed 12-29-2016; Ord. 1416A, passed 1-9-2018; Ord. 1428B, passed 1-8-2019; Ord. 1442A, passed 1-14-2020; Ord. 1455A, passed 1- 12-2021; Ord. 1467A, passed 1-11-2022; Ord. 1467A-1, passed 6-14-2022; Ord. 1479D, passed 1-10-2023) Penalty, see § 35.99
Cross-reference:
Human Resources Manual, Travel Guidelines, Job Travel, see Ch. 32, App. A