California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 8 - Clean Fuels Program › Section 2300 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The following
				definitions apply to Chapter 8.
(1)
				"Affiliate" means any person who owns or controls, is owned or controlled by,
				or is under common ownership and control with, another person.
(2) "CEC" means the Energy Resources,
				Conservation and Development Commission.
(3) "Clean alternative fuel" means any fuel
				used as the certification fuel in a low-emission vehicle, other than the
				primary gasoline or diesel fuel used in exhaust emission certification testing
				pursuant to the ARB's "California Exhaust Emission Standards and Test
				Procedures for 1988 Through 2000 Model Passenger Cars, Light-Duty Trucks and
				Medium-Duty Vehicles" as incorporated by reference in Title 13, California Code
				of Regulations, section
				1960.1, or "California Exhaust
				Emission Standards and Test Procedures for 2001 and Subsequent Model Passenger
				Cars, Light-Duty Trucks and Medium-Duty Vehicles" as incorporated by reference
				in Title 13, California Code of Regulations, section
				1961.
(4) "CNG" means compressed natural
				gas.
(4.3) "Compliance year" means
				the 12 month period running from May 1 through April 30.
(4.7) "Dedicated vehicle" means a
				low-emission vehicle designed and engineered to be operated solely on a clean
				alternative fuel, and not on gasoline or any mixture of gasoline and the clean
				alternative fuel.
(5) "Designated
				clean fuel" means any clean alternative fuel other than electricity.
(6) "Distribute" means to physically transfer
				from a production or importation facility and irrevocably release into commerce
				for use as a motor vehicle fuel in California.
(7) "Distributor" has the same meaning as
				defined in section
				20999
				of the Business and Professions Code.
(8) "Dual-fuel vehicle" means any motor
				vehicle that is engineered and designed to be capable of operating on gasoline,
				and on liquified petroleum gas, CNG or liquified natural gas.
(9) "Executive officer" means the executive
				officer of the Air Resources Board, or his or her designee.
(10) "Fleet operator" means, for any given
				calendar year, the operator in that year of fifteen or more low-emission
				vehicles that are certified on a particular designated clean fuel and that are
				under common ownership or operation in California.
(10.5) "Fleet vehicle" means one of fifteen
				or more low-emission vehicles that are certified on a particular designated
				clean fuel and that are under common ownership or operation in
				California.
(11) "Flexible-fuel
				vehicle" means any alcohol-fueled motor vehicle that is engineered and designed
				to be operated using any gasoline-alcohol mixture or blend.
(12) "Franchise," "franchisor," and
				"franchisee" have the same meaning as defined in section
				20999
				of the Business and Professions Code.
(13) "Gasoline supplier" means any person,
				including affiliates of such person, who produces gasoline for use in
				California or imports gasoline into California.
(14) "Import" means to bring motor vehicle
				fuel into California for the first time for use in motor vehicles in
				California.
(15) "Liquid designated
				clean fuel" means any designated clean fuel that is dispensed into motor
				vehicles in liquid form.
(16)
				"Low-emission vehicle" means any vehicle certified to the transitional
				low-emission vehicle, low-emission vehicle, ultra-low-emission vehicle, super
				ultra-low emission vehicle, or zero-emission vehicle standards established in
				Title 13, California Code of Regulations, sections
				1960.1 or
				1961.
(17) "Major breakdown" means an unforeseeable
				mechanical or electrical failure off CNG dispensing equipment which cannot in
				the exercise of reasonable diligence be repaired in 72 hours or less.
(19) "Minor breakdown" means an unforeseeable
				mechanical or electrical failure of CNG dispensing equipment which can in the
				exercise of reasonable diligence be repaired in 72 hours or less.
(20) "Non-retail facility" means any
				establishment at which a designated clean fuel is supplied or offered for
				supply to motor vehicles, but is not supplied or offered to the general
				public.
(21) "Owner/lessor" means:
(A) In the case of a retail gasoline outlet
				which is owned, leased or controlled by a franchisor, and which the franchisee
				is authorized or permitted, under the franchise, to employ in connection with
				the sale of gasoline, the franchisor.
(B) In the case of a retail gasoline outlet
				which is owned, leased or controlled by a refiner or a distributor, and is
				operated by the refiner or distributor or his agent, the refiner or
				distributor.
(C) In the case of all
				other retail gasoline outlets, the owner of the retail gasoline
				outlet.
(22) "Primary
				designated clean fuel" means a designated clean fuel for which a substitute
				fuel has been proposed or designated pursuant to section
				2317.
(23) "Produce" means, in the case of any
				liquid motor vehicle fuel, to convert in California liquid compounds which do
				not constitute the fuel into the fuel.
(24) "Quarter" means the three month calendar
				quarters January-March, April-June, July-September, and
				October-December.
(25) "Refiner"
				has the same meaning as defined in section
				20999
				of the Business and Professions Code.
(26) "Refinery" means a facility that
				produces gasoline by means that include distilling petroleum.
(27) "Selected retail clean fuel outlet"
				means a specific retail clean fuel outlet which is equipped to store and
				dispense a designated clean fuel in order to comply with section
				2302.
(28) "Retail clean fuel outlet" means an
				establishment which is equipped to dispense a designated clean fuel to motor
				vehicles and at which the designated clean fuel is sold or offered for sale to
				the general public for use in motor vehicles without the use of a key or card
				key and without the need to establish an account.
(29) "Retail gasoline outlet" means any
				establishment at which gasoline is sold or offered for sale to the general
				public for use in motor vehicles.
(31) "Vehicle conversion" means a
				modification of a gasoline or diesel fueled vehicle, not certified to a
				low-emission vehicle standard, to a vehicle which uses a designated clean fuel
				and which is capable of meeting low-emission vehicle exhaust emissions
				standards as demonstrated either by installation of an ARB-approved conversion
				system that achieves such low-emission standards or by individual vehicle
				testing.