California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 9 - Off-Road Vehicles and Engines Pollution Control Devices › Article 6.5 - Portable Outboard Marine Tanks and Components › Section 2468.10 - 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) "Above Deck Fuel Tank" has the same
				  meaning as portable outboard marine tank.
(2) "Assembly Clamps" means a clamping device
				  used to secure a fuel hose to a connector.
(3) "Automatically Closes and Seals" means
				  contains fuel and fuel vapor with no measurable emission rate excluding
				  emissions associated from wetted surfaces that occur only as a result from
				  connecting or disconnecting components.
(4) "Component" means any device used in
				  conjunction with a portable outboard marine tank to supply fuel to an outboard
				  engine.
(5) "Connector" means any
				  device used to connect fuel hose to an outboard engine and/or portable outboard
				  marine tank.
(6) "Consumer" means
				  the first person who in good faith purchases a new portable outboard marine
				  tank, portable outboard marine tank self sealing cap, portable outboard marine
				  tank fuel hose, or portable outboard marine tank primer bulb for purposes other
				  than resale, including but not limited to personal, family, household, or
				  institutional use.
(7)
				  "Distributor" means any person to whom a portable outboard marine tank,
				  portable outboard marine tank self sealing cap, portable outboard marine tank
				  fuel hose, or portable outboard marine tank primer bulb is sold or supplied for
				  the purposes of resale or distribution in commerce. Manufacturers, retailers,
				  and consumers are not distributors.
(8) "Diurnal Rate" means the process rate by
				  which fuel molecules evaporate through openings and permeate through materials
				  as measured using "Test Procedure 511, Diurnal Rate from Portable Outboard
				  Marine Tanks".
(9) "Executive
				  Officer" means the Executive Officer of the Air Resources Board, or his or her
				  designee.
(10) "Fuel" means all
				  fuels subject to any provision of Title 13, California Code of Regulations,
				  Chapter 5, Standards for Motor Vehicle Fuels, Sections
				  2250-2298, except for Sections
				  2292.5,
				  2292.6, and
				  2292.7.
(11) "Manufacturer" means any person who
				  imports, manufactures, assembles, packages, repackages, or re-labels a portable
				  outboard marine tank, portable outboard marine tank self sealing cap, portable
				  outboard marine tank fuel hose, or portable outboard marine tank primer
				  bulb.
(12) "Nominal Capacity" means
				  the volume indicated by the portable outboard marine tank manufacturer that
				  represents the maximum recommended filling level of a portable outboard marine
				  tank.
(13) "Outboard Engine" means
				  a spark-ignition marine engine that, when properly mounted on a marine
				  watercraft in the position to operate, houses the engine and drive unit
				  external to the hull of the marine watercraft.
(14) "Permeation Rate" means the process rate
				  by which fuel molecules penetrate a material and migrate to ambient air as
				  measured using "Test Procedure 512, Permeation Rate from Portable Outboard
				  Marine Tank Fuel Hoses and Primer Bulbs".
(15) "Person" has the same meaning as defined
				  in Health and Safety Code Section
				  39047.
(16) "Portable Outboard Marine Tank" means
				  any container with a nominal capacity of thirty (30) gallons or less that is
				  designed, used, sold, advertised or offered for sale for supplying fuel to an
				  outboard engine. Portable outboard marine tanks do not include fuel tanks
				  designed exclusively for permanent installation in a specific marine
				  vessel.
(17) "Portable Outboard
				  Marine Tank Cap" means a removable cap that allows for filling a portable
				  outboard marine tank with fuel and may include a manually operated or automatic
				  vent.
(18) "Portable Outboard
				  Marine Tank Fuel Hose" means fuel hose used to transfer fuel from a portable
				  outboard marine tank to an outboard engine.
(19) "Portable Outboard Marine Tank Primer
				  Bulb" means a device used to siphon fuel from a portable outboard marine tank
				  through a portable outboard marine tank fuel hose to an outboard
				  engine.
(20) "Portable Outboard
				  Marine Tank Self Sealing Cap" means a cap outfitted with a device that is
				  actuated by positive or negative pressure without user intervention that
				  contains fuel and fuel vapors inside a portable outboard marine tank during
				  normal use.
(21) "Portable Outboard
				  Marine Tank System" means any combination of portable outboard marine tank,
				  portable outboard marine tank self sealing cap, portable outboard marine tank
				  fuel hose or portable outboard marine tank primer bulb sold as a complete
				  package.
(22) "Product Category"
				  means the applicable category that best describes the product with respect to
				  its nominal capacity, material construction, and diurnal or permeation rate, as
				  applicable, as determined by the Executive Officer at the time certification is
				  requested.
(23) "Retailer" means
				  any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a retail
				  outlet.
(24) "Retail Outlet" means
				  any establishment at which a portable outboard marine tank, cap, fuel hose, or
				  primer bulb are sold, supplied, or offered for sale.
(25) "ROG" (Reactive Organic Gas) means a
				  reactive chemical gas, composed of hydrocarbons that may contribute to the
				  formation of smog. ROG is sometimes referred to as Non-Methane Organic
				  Compounds (NMOC's).