BARCLAYS OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA CODE OF

REGULATIONS

TITLE 13. MOTOR VEHICLES

DIVISION 3. AIR RESOURCES BOARD

CHAPTER 5. STANDARDS FOR MOTOR

VEHICLE FUELS

ARTICLE 1. STANDARDS FOR GASOLINE

SUBARTICLE 2. STANDARDS FOR GASOLINE

SOLD BEGINNING MARCH 1, 1996

This database is current through 12/26/08, Register

2008, No. 52

§ 2262.5. Compliance With the Standards for Oxygen

Content.

(a) Compliance with the minimum oxygen content cap

limit standard in specified areas in the wintertime.

(1) Within the areas and periods set forth in section

(a)(2), no person shall sell, offer for sale, supply, offer

for supply, or transport California gasoline unless it has

an oxygen content of not less than the minimum oxygen

content cap limit in section 2262.

(2)(A) November 1 through February 29:

South Coast Area

Imperial County

(B) October 1 through October 31, (1996 through

2002 only):

South Coast Area

(b) Compliance with the maximum oxygen content cap

limit standard . No person shall sell, offer for sale, supply, or transport California gasoline which has an oxygen content exceeding the maximum oxygen content

cap limit in section 2262, or which has an ethanol content exceeding 10.0 percent by volume.

(c) Compliance by producers and importers with the flat

limits for oxygen content.No producer or importer shall

sell, offer for sale, supply, or offer for supply from its

production or import facility California gasoline which

has an oxygen content less than flat limit for minimum

oxygen content, or more than flat limit for maximum

oxygen content, unless the gasoline has been (1) reported as a PM alternative gasoline formulation pursuant to

section 2265(a), or as a PM emissions offsetting formulation pursuant to section 2265.1 (applicable only to

producers and importers that produce gasoline), or as an

alternative gasoline formulation pursuant to section

2266(c), and (2) complies with the standards contained

in sections (a) and (b).

(d) Restrictions on adding oxygenates to California gasoline after it has been supplied from the production or

import facility.

(1) Basic Restriction. No person may add oxygenates to

California gasoline after it has been supplied from the

production or import facility at which it was produced

or imported, except where the person adding the oxygenates demonstrates that: (A) the gasoline to which the

oxygenates are added has been reported as a PM alternative gasoline formulation pursuant to section 2265(a),

or as a PM emissions offsetting formulation pursuant to

section 2265.1 (applicable only to producers and importers that produce gasoline), or as an alternative gasoline formulation pursuant to section 2266(c), and has

not been commingled with other gasoline, and (B) both

before and after the person adds the oxygenate to the

gasoline, the gasoline has an oxygen content within the

oxygen content specifications of the applicable PM alternative gasoline formulation, PM emissions offsetting

formulation, or alternative gasoline formulation. Nothing in this section (d) prohibits adding oxygenates to

CARBOB.

(2) Bringing gasoline into compliance with the minimum oxygen content cap limit. Notwithstanding section

(d)(1), a person may add an oxygenate that is not prohibited under section 2262.6 to California gasoline that

does not comply with an applicable minimum oxygen

content cap limit under sections 2262 and 2262.5(a),

where the person obtains the prior approval of the executive officer based on a demonstration that adding the

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oxygenate is necessary to bring the gasoline into compliance with the minimum oxygen content cap limit.

(e) Application of prohibitions.

(1) Section (a) shall not apply to a transaction occurring

in the areas and periods shown in (a)(2) where the person selling, supplying, or offering the gasoline demonstrates as an affirmative defense that, prior to the transaction, he or she has taken reasonably prudent precautions to assure that the gasoline will not be delivered to

a retail service station or bulk purchaser-consumer's

fueling facility in the areas and periods shown in (a)(2).

(2)(A) Section (a) shall not apply to a transaction occurring in the South Coast Area in October 2000, 2001,

2002, or 2003, where the transaction involves the transfer of gasoline from a stationary storage tank to a motor

vehicle fuel tank and the person selling, supplying, or

offering the gasoline demonstrates as an affirmative defense that the last delivery of gasoline to the stationary

storage tank occurred no later than September 16 of that

year.

(B) Section (a) shall not apply to a transaction occurring in November either in Imperial County or, starting

in 2004, in the South Coast Area, where the transaction

involves the transfer of gasoline from a stationary storage tank to a motor vehicle fuel tank and the person

selling, supplying, or offering the gasoline demonstrates

as an affirmative defense that the last delivery of gasoline to the stationary storage tank occurred no later than

October 17 of that year.

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Note: Authority cited: Sections 39600, 39601, 43013,

43013.1, 43018 and 43101, Health and Safety Code;

and Western Oil and Gas Ass'n. v. Orange County Air

Pollution Control District, 14 Cal.3d 411, 121 Cal. Rptr.

249 (1975). Reference: Sections 39000, 39001, 39002,

39003, 39010, 39500, 39515, 39516, 41511, 43000,

43013, 43013.1, 43016, 43018, 43101 and 43830.8,

Health and Safety Code; and Western Oil and Gas

Ass'n. v. Orange County Air Pollution Control District,

14 Cal.3d 411, 121 Cal. Rptr. 249 (1975).

HISTORY

1. New section filed 11-16-92; operative 12-16-92 (Register 92, No. 47).

2. Amendment of subsection (c) filed 6-2-95; operative 7-3-95 (Register 95,

No. 22).

3. Amendment of subsections (a)(2)(C) and (d), repealer of subsection (e)(1)

and subsection relettering filed 2-28-96; operative 2-28-96 pursuant to

Government Code section 11343.4(d) (Register 96, No. 9).

4. Editorial correction of subsection (a)(2)(B) (Register 97, No. 10).

5. Amendment of subsections (a)-(a)(2)(C) and (e)(1), and new subsection (e)(2)

filed 9-21-98; operative 9-21-98 pursuant to

Government Code section

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11343.4(d) (Register 98, No. 39).

6. Amendment of subsection (b) filed 3-31-99; operative 3-31-99 pursuant to

Government Code section 11343.4(d) (Register 99, No. 14).

7. Amendment of subsections (a)(2)(A)-(B), new subsection (a)(2)(C) and

subsection relettering filed 9-8-99; operative 9-8-99 pursuant to Government

Code section 11343.4(d) (Register 99, No. 37).

8. Amendment of section heading, section and Note filed 8-3-2000; operative 9-

2-2000 (Register 2000, No. 31).

9. Amendment of subsections (a)(2)(A)-(B), repealer of subsections (a)(2)(C)-

(D), new subsection (e)(2)(A) and redesignation and amendment of former

subsection (e)(2) as new subsection (e)(2)(B) filed 8-20-2001; operative 8-20-

2001 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2001, No. 34).

10. Amendment filed 12-24-2002; operative 12-24-2002 pursuant to Government

Code section 11343.4 (Register 2002, No. 52).

11. Amendment of subsection (b) filed 3-10-2005; operative 4-9-2005 (Register

2005, No. 10).

12. Amendment of subsections (c) and (d)(1) filed 8-29-2008; operative 8-29-

2008 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4 (Register 2008, No. 35).

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