Chapter
429
2007 -- S 0082
Enacted 07/06/07
A N A C T
RELATING
TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES
Introduced
By: Senators Algiere, Sosnowski, and Bates
Date
Introduced: January 23, 2007
It is enacted by the General Assembly as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section
31-36-1 of the General Laws in Chapter 31-36 entitled "Motor Fuel
Tax" is hereby amended to read as follows:
31-36-1.
Definitions. -- Terms in this chapter and chapter 37 of this title are
construed as
follows:
(1) "Administrator"
means the tax administrator.
(2)
"Distributor" includes any person, association of persons, firm, or
corporation,
wherever resident or located, who shall import
or cause to be imported into this state, for use or
for sale, fuels, and also any person,
association of persons, firm or corporation who shall produce,
refine, manufacture, or compound fuels within
this state.
(3) "Filling
station" includes any place, location, or station where fuels are offered
for
sale at retail.
(4)
"Fuels" includes gasoline, benzol, naphtha, and other volatile and
inflammable
liquids (other than lubricating oils, diesel
fuel for the propulsion of marine craft, fuels used for the
propulsion of airplanes, oils used for heating
purposes, manufactured and organically produced
biodiesel fuels that results in
employment in Rhode Island at a manufacturing facility for
organically produced biodiesel fuel), used
or suitable for use for operating or propelling motor
vehicles with internal combustion engines. This
does not include benzol and naphtha sold or used
for a purpose other than for the operation or
propulsion of motor vehicles. Any article or product
represented as gasoline for use in internal
combustion type engines, used in motor vehicles, shall
be equal to or better in quality and
specification than that known as "United States government
motor gasoline."
(5)
"Investigator and examiner" means any person appointed by the tax
administrator to
act as an investigator and examiner.
(6)
"Owner" includes any person, association of persons, firm, or
corporation offering
fuels for sale at retail.
(7)
"Peddlers" means any person, association of persons, firm or
corporation, except a
distributor as defined in this chapter, who
shall distribute gasoline by tank wagon in this state.
(8) "Public
highways" includes any state or other highway and any public street,
avenue,
alley, park, parkway, driveway, or public place
in any city or town.
(9)
"Pump" includes any apparatus or machine for raising, driving,
exhausting, or
compressing fluids, and used in the sale and
distribution of fuels.
(10)
"Purchaser" includes any person, association of persons, firm, or
corporation,
wherever resident or located, who purchases
fuels from a distributor, for use or resale, and any
person, association of persons, firm or
corporation who purchases from a distributor, gasoline or
other volatile and inflammable liquids (other
than lubricating oils and oils used for heating
purposes) for use other than for propelling
motor vehicles.
(11) "Retail
dealer" means any person, association of persons, firm, or corporation
operating a filling station as herein defined in
this chapter for the sale or dispensing of motor fuel
by delivery into service tank or tanks of any
highway motor vehicle which is propelled by an
internal combustion motor, other than the
highway motor vehicle belonging to the person owning
or operating the place of business; provided,
however, that sales by a manufacturer or distributor
shall not constitute them retail dealers.
(12) "State
highways" includes only those public highways or those parts of them that
shall be constructed or maintained by the
department of administration.
(13) "United
States government motor gasoline" means that gasoline which is or may be
prescribed by the federal specification board of
the United States government for use as a fuel for
motor vehicle, motor boat, and similar engines.
SECTION 2. This
act shall take effect upon passage.
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