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Employee Parking

There are 12 parking garages and 35 surface lots located in the Capitol Center, 24 outside the Capitol Center in Leon County, fifteen regional service centers with 7 garages and 23 surface lots. This brings the statewide inventory to 101 parking facilities consisting of approximately 23,046 spaces.

Photograph of the top deck of parking lot.

There are 6 types of parking at state-owned facilities:

  • Reserved Parking
  • Permit Parking
  • Disabled Parking
  • Scramble Parking
  • Car-pool
  • Building Loading Zones

Rules and Forms

Application For Reserved Parking 4029 (Word Document)
Application For Scramble Tag 4026 (Word Document)
Loading Zone Application 5033 (Word Document)
Parking Rules (Tallahassee Area) 5000 (Word Document)
Parking Rules (Regional Services Centers) 5000 RSC (Word Document)
State Employee Carpool Application 5034 (Word Document)
Tag Application 5031 (msword 49.00 kB) (Word Document)

Procedures For Reserved/Permit Parking

The following procedures are to be followed to initiate and complete contracts for reserved/permit parking and to issue parking tags.

A. The Department of Management Services (DMS) allocates to each agency a pro rata share of reserved/permit parking spaces as required. It is only from this allocation that the user agency has reserved/permit spaces to assign employees.

B. The Agency Parking Representative (APR) will represent the user department in all matters relating to the collection, refund, and accounting for fees by payroll deduction for designated/permit paid parking. Documents establishing or terminating payroll deductions will be approved by the APR who will be responsible for maintaining current and accurate payroll deduction data (lot, contract number and fee for the personnel/payroll file), and submitting the same to DMS.

C. The APR, prior to issuance of a parking tag will require an employee to execute a DMS Reserved/Permit Parking Contract which authorizes payroll deduction.

D. The parking fee for reserved/permit paid parking is:

Covered Biweekly - $2.77 , Monthly - $6.00 , Daily - 19.8 cents
Uncovered Biweekly - $1.85 , Monthly - $4.00 , Daily - 13.3 cents
Surface Biweekly - $ .93 , Monthly - $2.00 , Daily - 6.6 cents

E. Additionally, the APR will:

  1. Act as liaison with DMS Parking Services.
  2. Receive, process, initiate and forward paper work.
  3. Publish as required, informational parking memoranda to employees.
  4. Issue designated/permit parking tags.
  5. Maintain files and records to facilitate identification of employees possessing a parking tag and respond with information regarding designated/permit parking when requested by the DMS, Parking Services, other staff, or office of the Auditor General.
  6. Adopt procedures whereby a new employee is advised of the parking available and how employees obtain the same and for recovering designated/permit tags from employees terminating employment with the agency.

F. Payment will be made by payroll deduction, Code 0437; payment is payable in advance.

G. Employees on authorized leave of absence without pay who wish to continue their reservation of a contract in the lot must make arrangements with their APR prior to such leave. The employee will be required to remit by check payable to DMS, in advance, for the period of leave of absence without pay.

H. The following applies to the parking of state-owned vehicles and the issuing of designated/permit parking tags for use on state-owned vehicles:

  1. If the vehicle is assigned regularly to one agency employee, that employee will be responsible for paying the appropriate fee. The same procedure to obtain and use a designated/permit tag must be followed as if the vehicle were privately owned.
  2. If the vehicle is available regularly for use by more than one agency employee, the appropriate supervisor (or designee) shall execute forms required by DMS and shall arrange to pay the parking fees on an annual basis directly to DMS. The supervisor (or designee) will ensure that personnel using the state- owned vehicle is cautioned to follow all applicable rules and regulations.

I. Replacement Reserved/Permit/Scramble Parking Tags or access Cards:

  1. When a reserved/permit parking contract or scramble tag is issued, the first tag will be issued at "no cost." Any replacement tag shall be issued at a non- refundable charge of $2 each. The replacement tag is to be issued by DMS,Parking Services, after receipt of a statement explaining the necessity for securing a replacement.
  2. Additional tags are available for reserve or permit contract holders, at a non-refundable charge of $2. Additional permit tags will be issued by Parking Services after receipt and approval of the application for the additional permit tags.
  3. Where applicable, the first access card will be issued at "no cost." Any replacement access card shall be issued at anon-refundable charge applicable to respective lot. The replacement access card is issued by the DMS, after receipt of a statement explaining the necessity for securing a replacement.
  4. A replacement tag or access card may be acquired only by the contract holder.