§ 26-55-212 — Border tax rate areas - Use of auxiliary fuel tanks - Definition

(a) Any consumer of motor fuel who has purchased motor fuel within a border rate area and has obtained delivery of the motor fuel into a storage tank shall not thereafter deliver the motor fuel into an auxiliary tank attached to any motor vehicle and shall only use the motor fuel in propelling a motor vehicle as has been delivered directly from a storage tank into the standard fuel tank of a motor vehicle. (b) As used in this section, "standard fuel tank" means the fuel tank attached to the motor vehicle by the original manufacturer of the motor vehicle, except that it shall exclude any auxiliary fuel tank of a motor vehicle even if attached to a motor vehicle by the original manufacturer thereof. (c) Any consumer who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or be imprisoned in the county jail for not to exceed thirty (30) days, or be both so fined and imprisoned.

Legislative History

Acts 1941, No. 383, § 5; 1943, No. 252, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-1107.