ORS § 646.945

Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation
Section 646.945 - Definitions for ORS 646.947 to 646.963

As used in ORS 646.947 to 646.963:

(1) "Bulk facility" means a facility, including pipeline terminals, refinery terminals, rail and barge terminals and associated underground and aboveground tanks, connected or separate, from which motor vehicle fuels are withdrawn from bulk and delivered to retail, wholesale or nonretail facilities or into a cargo tank or barge used to transport those products.
(2) "Dealer" means any motor vehicle fuel retail dealer, nonretail dealer or wholesale dealer.
(3) "Director" means the Director of Agriculture.
(4) "Motor vehicle fuel" means gasoline, diesel or any other liquid product used for the generation of power in an internal combustion engine, except aviation jet fuels, liquefied petroleum or natural gases.
(5) "Nonretail dealer" means any person who owns, operates, controls or supervises an establishment at which motor vehicle fuel is dispensed through a card- or key-activated fuel dispensing device to nonretail customers.
(6) "Octane rating" means the rating of the anti-knock characteristics of a grade or type of gasoline determined by dividing by two the sum of the research octane number and the motor octane number.
(7) "Octane rating certification documentation" means an invoice, bill of lading, delivery ticket, letter or other documentation that specifies the actual octane rating or a rounded rating that is the largest whole number or half of a number that is less than or equal to the number determined by or certified to the person transferring the gasoline.
(8) "Retail dealer" means any person who owns, operates, controls or supervises an establishment at which motor vehicle fuel is sold or offered for sale to the public.
(9) "Wholesale dealer" means any person who sells motor vehicle fuel if the seller knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the buyer intends to resell the motor vehicle fuel in the same or an altered form to a retail dealer, a nonretail dealer or another wholesale dealer.
(10) "Withdrawn from bulk" means removed from a bulk facility for delivery directly into a cargo tank or a barge to be transported to a location other than another bulk facility for use or sale in this state.

ORS 646.945

1997 c.310 §1