Okla. Stat. tit. 68, § 68-701
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Definitions
Official statutory text
The following words and phrases when used in this act are hereby
defined as follows:
(a) The term "motor vehicle" or "vehicle" means and includes
any automobile, truck, truck-tractor, bus, vehicle or mechanical
contrivance which is propelled by an internal combustion engine or
motor and not used in the air or upon fixed rails or tracks.
(b) The term "person" means and includes every natural person,
fiduciary, individual, partnership, firm, association, limited
liability company, corporation, business trust, or combination
acting as a unit, or any receiver appointed by any state or federal
court, and the use of the singular number shall include the plural.
Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a fine or
imprisonment or both, the term "person" as applied to an association
means and includes the parties or members thereof, and as applied to
corporations, the officers thereof.
(c) "Commission" or "Tax Commission" means the Oklahoma Tax
Commission.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 68. Revenue and Taxation Page 336
(d) The term "special fuel" or "fuel" means and includes all
combustible gases and liquids, including liquefied gases, which
exist in the gaseous state at a temperature of sixty (60) degrees
Fahrenheit and at a pressure of fourteen and seven-tenths (14.7)
pounds per square inch absolute, but the term does not include
compressed natural gas subject to the levy of tax pursuant to
paragraph 3 of subsection A of Section 500.4 of this title or
liquefied natural gas subject to the levy of tax pursuant to
paragraph 4 of subsection A of Section 500.4 of this title.
(e) The term "use" shall mean and include the following: (1)
the delivery or placing of special fuel into the fuel supply tank or
tanks of any motor vehicle in this state for use in whole or in part
to propel such vehicle on the public highways of this state; (2) the
consumption on the public highways of Oklahoma of any special fuel
imported into this state in the fuel supply tank or tanks of any
motor vehicle using the public highways of this state for commercial
purposes; (3) the consumption of special fuel in any type of motor
vehicle on the public highways of this state for any purpose by any
person who refuses to divulge the source of such fuel.
(f) The term "public highway" means and includes every road,
highway, street, way or place within this state, of whatever nature,
generally open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the
purposes of vehicular travel, including a toll highway, and
including streets and alleys of any town or city, notwithstanding
that the same may be temporarily closed for the purpose of
construction, reconstruction, maintenance, or repair.
(g) The term "gallon" means one (1) United States standard
gallon at a temperature of sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit.
(h) The term "special fuel dealer" shall mean any person
engaged in the business of handling special fuel who delivers any
part thereof into the fuel supply tank or tanks of any motor
vehicle.
(i) The term "special fuel user" shall mean and include any
person other than a special fuel dealer, who uses special fuel in
this state, within the meanings of the word "use" as defined in this
act, and shall include any person who consumes special fuel to
propel a motor vehicle upon the public highways of this state when
such special fuel has been purchased or obtained from any source
free from the payment to this state of the tax levied by this act.
defined as follows:
(a) The term "motor vehicle" or "vehicle" means and includes
any automobile, truck, truck-tractor, bus, vehicle or mechanical
contrivance which is propelled by an internal combustion engine or
motor and not used in the air or upon fixed rails or tracks.
(b) The term "person" means and includes every natural person,
fiduciary, individual, partnership, firm, association, limited
liability company, corporation, business trust, or combination
acting as a unit, or any receiver appointed by any state or federal
court, and the use of the singular number shall include the plural.
Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a fine or
imprisonment or both, the term "person" as applied to an association
means and includes the parties or members thereof, and as applied to
corporations, the officers thereof.
(c) "Commission" or "Tax Commission" means the Oklahoma Tax
Commission.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 68. Revenue and Taxation Page 336
(d) The term "special fuel" or "fuel" means and includes all
combustible gases and liquids, including liquefied gases, which
exist in the gaseous state at a temperature of sixty (60) degrees
Fahrenheit and at a pressure of fourteen and seven-tenths (14.7)
pounds per square inch absolute, but the term does not include
compressed natural gas subject to the levy of tax pursuant to
paragraph 3 of subsection A of Section 500.4 of this title or
liquefied natural gas subject to the levy of tax pursuant to
paragraph 4 of subsection A of Section 500.4 of this title.
(e) The term "use" shall mean and include the following: (1)
the delivery or placing of special fuel into the fuel supply tank or
tanks of any motor vehicle in this state for use in whole or in part
to propel such vehicle on the public highways of this state; (2) the
consumption on the public highways of Oklahoma of any special fuel
imported into this state in the fuel supply tank or tanks of any
motor vehicle using the public highways of this state for commercial
purposes; (3) the consumption of special fuel in any type of motor
vehicle on the public highways of this state for any purpose by any
person who refuses to divulge the source of such fuel.
(f) The term "public highway" means and includes every road,
highway, street, way or place within this state, of whatever nature,
generally open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the
purposes of vehicular travel, including a toll highway, and
including streets and alleys of any town or city, notwithstanding
that the same may be temporarily closed for the purpose of
construction, reconstruction, maintenance, or repair.
(g) The term "gallon" means one (1) United States standard
gallon at a temperature of sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit.
(h) The term "special fuel dealer" shall mean any person
engaged in the business of handling special fuel who delivers any
part thereof into the fuel supply tank or tanks of any motor
vehicle.
(i) The term "special fuel user" shall mean and include any
person other than a special fuel dealer, who uses special fuel in
this state, within the meanings of the word "use" as defined in this
act, and shall include any person who consumes special fuel to
propel a motor vehicle upon the public highways of this state when
such special fuel has been purchased or obtained from any source
free from the payment to this state of the tax levied by this act.
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