Equipment purchased for university use is intended for the department as assigned. On occasion, it may be permissible and sometimes necessary for university-owned equipment to be used by employees.
The criteria for lending equipment are as follows:
- Permission to borrow university equipment must be arranged with the department head where the equipment is assigned.
- The equipment must be for university and/or university-employee personal use. Employee usage of equipment for personal commercial and business venture applications does not qualify.
- The type of equipment to be loaned shall be portable in nature. Hazardous equipment such as lawn mowers, power saws, etc., will not be loaned.
- The duration of the loan time shall not exceed three days. Extensions shall be approved by the relevant department director.
- Equipment not returned, or returned but not in the same condition as borrowed shall be repaired or replaced at the expense of the employee via a personal check or authorized payroll deduction.
- Materials used in the operation of the equipment shall be the personal expense of the employee.
- Vehicles assigned to the Landscape, Service, and Plant Service departments are not available on either a loan or rental basis.
- Transportation Department vehicles do not come under the loan policy but are rented at established rates.