Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 380 - Department of Labor › Chapter 80 - Alternative Fuels Program › Subchapter 5 - Alternative Fuels Program › Section 380:80-5-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Administrator"
means the Program Administrator and Recording Secretary of the Committee.
"Agency"
means the Department of Labor.
"Alternative fuels"
means fuels which result in comparably lower emissions of oxides of nitrogen, volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, or particulate matter or any combination thereof and includes CNG, LPG, LNG, methanol, ethanol, reformulated gasoline, hydrogen, and electricity.
"Alternative fuels compression technician"
means any person who installs, services, modifies, repairs or renovates fill stations.
"Alternative fuels equipment technician"
means any person who installs, modifies, repairs or renovates equipment used in the conversion of any engines to engines fueled by alternative fuels and includes OEM vehicles either dedicated to operate on an alternative fuel or manufactured bi-fueled, i.e., capable of operating on gasoline or an alternative fuel.
"Alternative Fuels Technician Certification Act"
means O.S. Title 40,  Section  142.1  through  142.16.
"Alternative fuels equipment trainee"
means an individual who is employed by an Oklahoma licensed alternative fuels conversion company to assist an alternative fuels equipment technician and learn to properly convert motor vehicles to operate on alternative fuels and to service and maintain such vehicles.
"Capable of operating on an alternative fuel"
means any motor vehicle converted or designed to operate on an alternative fuel.
"Charge station"
means the physical device that provides a connection from a power source to an electric vehicle as defined by the Electric Power Research Institute, and the Society of Automotive Engineers.
"CNG"
means compressed natural gas.
"Committee"
means the Committee of Alternative Fuels Technician Examiners.
"Electric vehicle technician"
means any person who installs, modifies, repairs, performs maintenance on, motors, controllers, on-board power sources, or the drive systems of vehicles powered by electricity. This includes vehicles originally equipped as electric vehicles, vehicles converted from gliders, and vehicles converted from internal combustion engine vehicles.
"Engine"
means the propulsion system of a motor vehicle. Nothing in this definition is meant to cover any stationary engine.
"Fill station"
means the property which is directly related to the delivery of compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and/or hydrogen into the fuel tank of a motor vehicle propelled by such fuel and/or a hydrogen fuel cell including the compression equipment and storage vessels for such fuel at the point where the fuel is delivered.
"Glider"
means a vehicle built without an engine or fuel system for the purpose of converting it to an electric vehicle.
"Hydrogen"
means a hydrogen fuel composed of molecular hydrogen intended for consumption in a surface vehicle or mobile electricity production device with an internal combustion engine or fuel cell and includes liquid and gaseous hydrogen.
"Liquefied petroleum gas vehicular fuel systems"
means an object or objects mounted, installed, attached or otherwise placed upon or within a vehicle or vehicle trailer to supply or assist in the supply of liquefied petroleum gas as a fuel to an internal combustion engine or engines.
"LNG"
means liquefied natural gas.
"LPG"
means liquefied petroleum gas otherwise known as propane and/or propane autogas.
"Motor vehicle"
means every vehicle which is self-propelled and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails; provided, however, the definition of "motor vehicle" herein shall not include implements of husbandry.
"NFPA"
means the National Fire Protection Association.
"OEM"
means original equipment manufacturers.
"Person"
means individuals, corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, associations and governmental subdivisions.
"Trainee"
means an individual who is employed by an Oklahoma licensed company to learn to properly engage in the activities regulated by this Chapter that can engage in any licensed category pursuant to this Chapter while under the direct supervision of an individual holding the appropriate license in the category of activity being performed.
"Work"
means any procedure involved in the physical installation or servicing of all components used in the conversion of motor vehicles to operate on alternative fuels and the servicing of original equipment manufacturers vehicles that operate on alternative fuels, including:
(A) LPG and CNG components;
(i) tubing;
(ii) fittings;
(iii) valves;
(iv) gauges;
(v) brackets;
(vi) fuel lines;
(vii) cylinders;
(viii) tanks; and
(ix) electronic or electrical devices.