Section R2-1-901. Definitions

In this  Article,  unless  otherwise specified,  the following  terms apply:

1.        “Commute” means  travel  to  and from  an employee’s place of employment.

2.        “Director” means the chief executive officer of the Department of Administration or the Director’s designee.

3.        “Eligible employee” means an individual who is employed by the state of Arizona, in pay status, and lives or works in a vehicle emissions control area, as defined in

A.R.S. § 49-541, except a university employee or an employee of the State Compensation Fund under A.R.S. § 23-981.01.

4.        “Pay status” has the meaning in R2-5A-101.

5.        “Reduced cost” means an eligible employee’s share of the total cost of vanpool transportation that remains after the reimbursement subsidy is paid.

6.        “Reimbursement subsidy” means the portion of the total cost of vanpool transportation that is paid, on behalf of an

eligible employee, to a regional transit authority or state agency through a contract with the state of Arizona.

7.        “Regional transit authority” means a regional transporta- tion authority established under A.R.S. § 48-5302 or regional public transportation authority established under

A.R.S. § 48-5102 that operates or licenses a vanpool pro- gram.

8.        “State agency” means an agency that administers a van- pool program in an area not served by a regional transit authority.

9.        “Vanpool” means seven or more persons who commute in a van sponsored by a regional transit authority or in a van that is part of a vanpool administered by a state agency.

Historical Note

Adopted effective December 30, 1994 (Supp. 94-4).

Amended effective September 11, 1997 (Supp. 97-3). Amended by final rulemaking at 14 A.A.R. 10, effective February 5, 2008 (Supp. 07-4). Corrected rule reference to R2-5A-101 in subsection (4) due to Personnel Reform rules made in 2012, correction letter M15-192 filed by agency (Supp. 14-2).