100 STAT. 3260 Motor vehicles.
PUBLIC LAW 99-576—OCT. 28, 1986
"(b) In order to accommodate the vehicles of employees of medical facilities, vehicles used to transport veterans and eligible persons to ,.,^ „., or from such facilities for the purpose of examination or treatment, is and the vehicles of visitors and other individuals having business at such facilities, the Administrator— "(1) may construct or alter parking facilities, and may acl quire, by purchase, lease, condemnation, donation, exchange, or I, otherwise, such land or interests in land as the Administrator considers necessary for use as the site for any such construction or alteration; "(2) may acquire, by purchase, lease, condemnation, donation, O l> exchange, or otherwise, any facility that the Administrator T considers necessary for use as a parking facility; and .' "(3) may operate and maintain parking facilities. "(c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, each employee, visitor, and other individual having business at a medical facility for which parking fees have been established under subsection (d) or (e) of this section shall be charged the applicable parking fee for the use of a parking facility at such medical facility. Motor vehicles. "(2) A parking fee shall not be charged under this subsection for the accommodation of any vehicle used to transport to or from a medical facility— "(A) a veteran or eligible person in connection with such veteran or eligible person seeking examination or treatment; or fjnji "(B) a volunteer worker (as determined in accordance with Voluntarism. regulations which the Administrator shall prescribe) in connecV* tion with such worker performing services for the benefit of veterans receiving care at a medical facility. "(3) The Administrator shall collect (or provide for the collection of) parking fees charged under this subsection. "(d)(l) For each medical facility where funds from the revolving fund described in subsection (h) of this section are expended for— "(A) a garage constructed or acquired by the Veterans' r. Administration at a cost exceeding $500,000 (or, in the case of
acquisition by lease, $100,000 per year); or gly* "(B) a project for the alteration of a garage at a cost exceeding $500,000, the Administrator shall prescribe a schedule of parking fees to be charged at all parking facilities used in connection with such medical facility. "(2) The parking fee schedule prescribed for a medical facility referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be designed to establish fees which the Administrator determines are reasonable under the circumstances. "(e) The Administrator may prescribe a schedule of parking fees for the parking facilities at any medical facility not referred to in subsection (d) of this section. Any such schedule shall be designed to establish fees which the Administrator determines to be reasonable under the circumstances and shall cover all parking facilities used in connection with such medical facility. "(f) The Administrator may contract (by lease or otherwise) for the operation of parking facilities at medical facilities under such terms and conditions as the Administrator prescribes and may do so without regard to laws requiring full and open competition. "(g) Subject to subsections (h) and (i) of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as are necessary to finance (in whole or in part) the construction, alteration, and ac-
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