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553 Operation and Care of County Vehicles Cleaning of Vehicles 1o Vehicles must be kept clean at all times. It is the assigned drivers obligation and responsibility to maintain the vehicle in clean condition. Car washes and other appearance conditions are the responsibility of the driver. Bo Maintenance of Vehicles 1. A vehicle number will be assigned by the garage and affixed to the left front windshield, under the inspection sticker. 2. Each employee assigned a County owned vehicle is responsible for making an appointment and insuring periodic maintenance of the vehicle by the County Garage. The driver is obligated to schedule the appointment when the vehicle mileage is within 500 miles of the next service, which is indicated on a red bordered sticker on the inside of the drivers door. 3. Repairs other than scheduled maintenance which are non-safety or non- essential must be submitted on a maintenance request form. These will normally be completed at the next scheduled maintenance interval or at the Garage Manager's discretion. 4. Emergency repairs during normal working hours will be completed by the Garage with EMS and then the Sheriff's Department vehicles given top priority. 5. (A) The Sheriff's Department Communication Center will contact on call garage employee on emergency repairs after normal working hours to be performed on EMS or Sheriff's vehicles only when no spare vehicles are available. (B) All other non-emergency vehicles will contact on call garage employee at beeper no. after normal working hours or as Garage Manager requests. 6. (A) Sheriff's Department and EMS vehicles having had mechanical failure will obtain wrecker service by calling Sheriff's Department Communication Center, or as requested by Garage Manager. (B) All non-emergency County vehicles having had mechanical failure will call garage employee on call beeper no. Necessary action will be taken (wrecker called, etc.), or as Garage Manager requests. 7. Gas cards for County fuel sites are issued to each vehicle upon notification to the Garage Manager. Gas cards are to stay with the vehicle, not with the driver. 8. Special equipment installed on the vehicle (fire extinguisher, flashlights, gas cards, and first aid kits) must stay within that vehicle at all times. Drivers are responsible for security of these items. 9. During severe winter weather, the Garage will install snow tires and chains on essential and emergency County vehicles. Snow tires will be installed by the Garage as necessary. Subsequent removal or change of snow tires can be scheduled at the Garage depending upon the workload. When weather conditions warrant snow chains, the Garage Manager will notify concerned departments and arrange for vehicles authorized for chains, to be brought into the Garage for installation. All shifts (Sheriff's Department) will report to the Garage at that time. Vehicles needing chains after this time will be required to take them to a service station that accepts one of the vehicles credit cards, to have the chains installed or removed. 10. The following items are the responsibility of the driver to have replaced or repaired by outside (non-County) services, unless otherwise specified by the Garage Manager. Departments should use dealers which offer the State Contract price for tires if applicable. (1) Replacement tires (2) Installation or repair of communication equipment (3) Washing or other appearance maintenance to vehicle 11. The Garage will schedule other outside (non-County) work unless specified otherwise (i.e., suspension alignment, upholstery repair, warranty work, exhaust system repair, etc.) It will be the driver's responsibility to have the vehicle at the contracted service at the designated time and to also pick-up the vehicle when finished.