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It is unlawful for covered persons in the state to store, sell, distribute, transport, or offer certain engine fuels and lubricating oils in a deceptive, adulterated, or misbranded way.
A person, firm, or corporation may not sell or distribute certain fuels or lubricating oils from a tank, container, pump, or similar device unless the equipment is plainly marked with the manufacturer’s or distributor’s identifying name or symbol.
A person, firm, or corporation may not disguise or camouflage its own equipment by copying the design, symbol, or trade name of equipment used for recognized brands of internal combustion engine fuels, lubricating oils, and similar products.
It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell certain engine fuels or lubricating oils under a trade name in general use unless they were made or distributed by the brand owner, and it is also unlawful to substitute, mix, or adulterate those products.
This section defines “liquefied petroleum gas” and “owner,” and generally prohibits anyone other than the owner or a person authorized in writing by the owner from filling or refilling a liquefied petroleum gas container with liquefied petroleum gas or any other gas or substance.
It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to help another violate this chapter by putting the wrong fuel, lubricating oil, or similar product into a tank or container marked for different contents.
This section defines “internal combustion engine fuel,” defines when fuel is “misbranded,” and states when gasoline is treated as “adulterated.”
The Attorney General must enforce this chapter and may inspect, open, enter, and take samples for analysis from relevant fuel and oil storage, transport, sale, and exposure sites, while the Director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station must analyze or cause analysis of samples as the Attorney General determines
A qualifying full-service gasoline station must have an attendant dispense gasoline to certain disabled drivers when requested and when specified conditions are met.
Fuel retailers must clearly post the price on each pump and meet specific sign/label rules; violations can result in civil fines.
A retail seller of propane gas must tell a customer or potential customer the unit price of propane gas when asked, when an oral order for a single delivery is received, and at billing time.
Retail fuel dealers who advertise engine-fuel prices on signs must include all applicable taxes in the displayed price.
Violations of this chapter, except section 1658-A, are punishable by a fine, jail term, or both; violations of section 1658-A are a civil violation with a forfeiture up to $1,000.
This section defines biodiesel-related terms and requires sellers making resale transfers of covered fuel to prepare and keep a transfer document for 4 years.
This chapter may be known and cited as the "Petroleum Market Share Act." [PL 1991, c. 836, §3 (NEW).]
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. [PL 1991, c. 836, §3 (NEW).] 1. Affiliate. "Affiliate" means any person who controls, is controlled by or is under common
Wholesalers and refiners must file fuel-supply and retail-outlet reports with the Department of the Attorney General.
The Attorney General may use summonses to obtain witness attendance, testimony, and books and papers about retailer market shares, and hearings or investigations under this chapter must be held in Kennebec County or another county the Attorney General designates.
Information the Department of the Attorney General receives under sections 1673 and 1674 is confidential.
This section bars refiners, retailers, and wholesalers from several motor-fuel and home-heating-oil trade practices, including nearby outlet control, deceptive sales statements, resale price-fixing, and unfair or deceptive practices.
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