Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 12B-5.020 [Effective 1/1/2024] Definitions; Specific Exemptions

• Library: Florida Administrative Code
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through Reg. 49, No. 248; December 26, 2023
• Citation: Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 12B-5.020
• Year: 2023

(1) Definitions.

(a) "Alcohol" means completely denatured ethanol (ethyl alcohol) or methanol (wood alcohol) derived from grain agricultural products, wood, coal, or other products, other than petroleum or natural gas, manufactured, produced, sold or purchased for the purpose of blending with gasoline, or for 100 percent alcohol fuel used in motor vehicles Alcohol, when used in motor vehicles, is a motor fuel subject to all of the provisions of Section 206.41, F.S.

(b) "Business Purposes" means diesel fuel used in the normal course of business in stationary equipment or self-propelled equipment, other than vessels, which moves between points using a diesel powered engine and is not required to be licensed under the motor vehicle license laws under Chapter 320, F.S.

(c) "Enterer" means the importer of record with respect to fuel. However, if the importer of record is acting as an agent (e.g., the importer of record is a customs broker engaged by the owner of the fuel), the person for whom the agent is acting is the enterer. If there is no importer of record for fuel entered into Florida, the enterer is the owner of the fuel at the time the fuel is brought into Florida.

(d) "Fuel" means all fuels as defined in Chapter 206, F.S., and this rule chapter, including fuel grade ethanol manufactured, produced, sold, or purchased for use as a gasoline blending component, or for use in a motor vehicle.

(e) "Fuel grade ethanol" means ethanol blended with at least 1.97 percent gasoline pursuant 27 C.F.R. § 27undefined19.746 (4-1-22) and (hereby incorporated by reference http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-16295).

(f) "Gasohol" means a mixture of gasoline blended with ethanol, which contains not more than 91 percent gasoline by volume, and the ethanol content must not be less than nine percent by volume.

(g) "Gasoline" means any mixture used as a fuel in spark-ignition, internal combustion engines, which has an octane number not less than 75 and a lead content not greater than 0.05 grams per gallon.

(h) "Licensee" means all terminal suppliers, importers, wholesalers, exporters, carriers terminal operators, blenders, local government users, mass transit systems, or natural gas fuel retailers.

(i) "Marinas" shall mean any facilities for the...