(a) The Finance Director shall, upon presentation of an appropriate voucher signed by the individual employee to whom mileage benefits are to be paid, and signed by the supervisor of such individual employee, pay to the individual employee a mileage reimbursement in an amount per mile equal to the mileage reimbursement rate as set by the Ohio Office of Management and Budget at the time of the presentation for the miles which the individual employee utilized his privately owned motor vehicle for City purposes provided, however, no mileage shall be paid to any employee of the City, unless all of the following occur:
(1) The individual employee was specifically authorized and instructed by his supervisor to use his private motor vehicle for Municipal purposes; and
(2) The individual employee utilized a private motor vehicle for the authorized Municipal purpose; and
(3) The private motor vehicle was utilized over the most direct route for carrying out the Municipal purpose; and
(4) The individual employee did not utilize the private motor vehicle for any purpose for which payment or compensation has been previously agreed upon and paid to such individual employee by the City.
(b) All vouchers referred to in subsection (a) hereof, shall include thereon the name of the individual employee whose private motor vehicle was utilized for Municipal purposes, the name of the supervisor who authorized same, and a statement of the places transportation to which was provided by the private motor vehicle, and a statement of the mileage driven by the private motor vehicle.
(c) The rate of mileage payment to be paid by the City to an employee of the City to whom mileage may be paid pursuant to this section shall be an amount per mile equal to the mileage reimbursement rate as set by the Ohio Office of Management and Budget at the time of the presentation.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to mean and this section shall not provide for the payment of mileage to more than one person for any one mile traveled by any private motor vehicle for which mileage may be paid pursuant to this section.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Mayor shall be entitled to mileage reimbursement from the City for any miles traveled by him for which he utilizes a private motor vehicle for Municipa1 purposes provided, however, the Mayor shall submit to the Finance Director a statement providing the information set forth in subsection (a) hereof with the exception no supervisor's name shall be given.
(Ord. 26-17. Passed 5-23-17.)