R33-26-401. Public Sale of State-Owned Vehicles

  (1) State-owned excess vehicles may be purchased at any time by the general public, subject to any holding period that may be assigned by the division and subject to the division's operating days and hours.

  (2) Federal surplus property auctions to the general public may be accomplished on occasions and subject to the limitations as indicated previously.

  (3) The frequency of public auctions, for either State-owned vehicles or federal surplus property will be regulated by current law as applicable, the volume of items held in inventory by the division, and the profitability of conducting auctions versus other approaches to disposing of surplus property.

  (4) State-owned vehicles available for sale may not have any ancillary or component parts or equipment removed, destroyed, or detached, from the vehicle prior to sale without the approval of the division.

  (5) State agencies are prohibited from removing ancillary or component parts or equipment from vehicles intended for surplus unless:

  (a) the state agency intends on using the ancillary or component parts or equipment on other agency vehicles;

  (b) the state agency in possession of the vehicle intends to transfer the ancillary or component parts or equipment to another state agency; or

  (c) the state agency has obtained prior approval from the division to remove ancillary or component parts or equipment from the vehicle intended for surplus.