Except as otherwise permitted by § 105-2, every motor vehicle owned or controlled by the State, or by any county thereof, when not being used for official or governmental business or purposes, shall be kept in parking areas under cover if feasible at, or in the vicinity of, the office or place of business of the department, commission, board, bureau, officer, agency, or instrumentality controlling or possessing such motor vehicle. The comptroller, in the case of the State and the county councils, in the case of the counties, or the respective board or commission, in case of an independent board or commission having charge of its own funds, shall direct and see that this section is carried out, and, in that regard, each officer and each head of a department, commission, board, bureau, agency, or instrumentality controlling or possessing any such motor vehicle shall, when so directed, provide such parking areas and shelter for such motor vehicles controlled or possessed by him or it.