Executive orders · Governor Robert D. Ray
Executive Order 11
Signed by Governor Robert D. Ray on September 25, 1972.
What it does
AI summary This order transfers the responsibility for purchasing, maintaining, protecting, assigning, and disposing of all state-owned motor vehicles from the State Car Dispatcher to the General Services Department. The State Comptroller is directed to transfer and allocate all remaining money from the State Car Dispatcher to the General Services Department to implement this change. These transfers took effect on September 1, 1972.1
The Legislature’s description: Transfers responsibility for the purchase, maintenance, protection, assignment, and disposition of all state-owned vehicles from the State Car Dispatcher to the General Services Department.
Read the order
-1 EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER ELEVEN WHEREAS , t he Governor's Economy Committee, appointed in 1969, recommended that the general admi nistrative func t ions of state government should be centralized i n one department t o increase the effectiveness of all s t a te a gencies and reduce the c ost of state government; and WHEREAS , the First Session of the 64t h Iowa General Assembly passed an Act establ i shing a new Genera l Services Department, which will assume various specified dut ie s, powers and respons ibil i tie s of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, the State Vehi cle Dispatcher, the Stat e Printing Board, the Superintendent of Pr inting, the State Comptrolle r and the Executive Council over the next 18 months; and WHEREAS, the result of the transfer of these duties t o the General Services Department will be better coordination and control of administrat ive functions of State Government, with cons e quent financ _ia l sav i ngs through centralization : - NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert D. Ray, Governor of the State of Iowa, pursuant to the powers gran t ed me i n Section 14 of Cha pter 84 of the Laws of the 64th General As s embly, First Session , do hereby authorize and direct the trans f er of the powers, dut i es, functions, responsibilities providing for the purchase, maintenance, protection, assignment and disposition of all state owned motor vehicles as provided in Section 73 of Chapter 84 of the Law of the 64t h General Assembly, First Session, to the General Services De pa rtment. For purpos e s of implement ing t his t ransfer, I hereby a ut horize and direct the St a t e Comptroller, pursuant to Section 13 of Chap t er 84 of t he Laws of the 64th General Ass embly, First Session, to t ransfer and al l ocate the moneys appr opria t ed and remaini ng in t he name of the State Car Dispatcher t o t he General Services De partment . The transfers directed above shall take effect on Sep t ember ~~ . 1972 . ATTEST : SECRETARY OF IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Gr eat Seal of the State of Iowa t o be affixed . Do;iM/ Des Moines, Iowa,, this 2 ay of Se ptember in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred sevent y - two.
From the text in the order’s PDF. Older orders were scanned, so a few words may be garbled; the signed PDF is the official version.