California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 9 - Off-Road Vehicles and Engines Pollution Control Devices › Article 6 - Portable Fuel Containers and Spouts › Section 2467.1 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The definitions
				  in section
				  1900(b), title 13
				  of the California Code of Regulations apply with the following additions:
(1) "ASTM" means ASTM International, an
				  international standards organization.
(2) "Automatic closure" means a device or
				  mechanism that causes a portable fuel container system spout to automatically
				  close, seal, and remain completely closed when not dispensing fuel.
(3) "Automatically close" means a closure
				  occurs through the activation of a device or mechanism that causes a spout to
				  close, seal, and remain completely closed when not dispensing fuel.
(4) "Consumer" means the first person who in
				  good faith purchases a new portable fuel container system or its components for
				  purposes other than resale, including but not limited to personal, family,
				  household, or institutional use.
(5) "Distributor" means any person to whom a
				  portable fuel container system or its components are sold or supplied for the
				  purposes of resale or distribution in commerce. Manufacturers, retailers, and
				  consumers are not distributors.
(6)
				  "Executive Officer" means the Executive Officer of the Air Resources Board, or
				  his or her designee.
(7) "Fuel"
				  means any petroleum distillate or petroleum distillate/alcohol blend or
				  alcohol, except any liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), which has a vapor pressure
				  of 1.5 psia (77.5 mm Hg) or greater and is used as a fuel for internal
				  combustion engines.
(8) "Kerosene"
				  means any light petroleum distillate that is commonly or commercially known,
				  sold, or represented as kerosene, that is used in space heating, cook stoves,
				  and water heaters, and is suitable for use as a light source when burned in
				  wick-fed lamps.
(9) "Manufacturer"
				  means any person who imports, manufactures, assembles, packages, repackages, or
				  re-labels a portable fuel container or spout.
(10) "Nominal Capacity" means the volume
				  indicated by the manufacturer that represents the maximum recommended filling
				  level.
(11) "Outboard Marine
				  Engine" means a spark-ignition marine engine that, when properly mounted on a
				  marine water-craft in the position to operate, houses the engine and drive unit
				  external to the hull of the marine water-craft.
(12) "Permeation" means the process by which
				  individual fuel molecules may penetrate the walls and various assembly
				  components of a portable fuel container system and evaporate from its outside
				  surface.
(13) "Person" has the same
				  meaning as defined in Health and Safety Code section
				  39047.
(14) "Portable Fuel Container (PFC)" means
				  any container or vessel with a nominal capacity of ten gallons or less intended
				  for reuse that is designed, used, sold, advertised, or offered for sale for
				  receiving, transporting, storing, and dispensing fuel or kerosene. Portable
				  fuel containers do not include containers or vessels permanently embossed or
				  permanently labeled, as described in 49 Code of Federal Regulations section
				  172.407(a), with
				  language indicating said containers or vessels are solely intended for use with
				  non-fuel or non-kerosene products.
(15) "Portable Fuel Container System" means
				  any configuration of portable fuel container and components, including firmly
				  attached spout, any caps, gaskets, vents, and other parts provided to
				  consumers.
(16) "Product Category"
				  means the applicable category that best describes the product with respect to
				  its nominal capacity, material construction, fuel flow rate, and permeation
				  rate, as applicable, as determined by the Executive Officer.
(17) "Product Family" means any portable fuel
				  container systems that share similar designs, that are constructed of identical
				  materials, and that are manufactured using identical processes, but vary only
				  in size or color.
(18) "Retailer"
				  means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a retail
				  outlet.
(19) "Retail Outlet" means
				  any establishment at which portable fuel containers or spouts are sold,
				  supplied, or offered for sale.
(20)
				  "Spout" means any device that can be firmly attached to a portable fuel
				  container and through which the contents of a portable fuel container can be
				  dispensed, not including a device that can be used to lengthen the spout to
				  accommodate necessary applications.
(21) "Target Fuel Tank" means any receptacle
				  that receives fuel from a portable fuel container.
(22) "Total Organic Gases (TOG)" means
				  compounds of carbon, excluding carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid,
				  metallic carbides or carbonates, and ammonium carbonate.