Maryland Public Safety Section 14-501
§ 14-501.
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// SPECIAL NOTE: THE FOLLOWING SECTION WAS CHANGED BY CHAPTER 87 OF 2005 AND WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL JUNE 30, 2010 //
(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b) "Administration" means the Maryland Energy Administration.
(c) "Assignment" means a written authorization by the Administration that orders a specified supplier to supply State set-aside products to a specified purchaser.
(d) "Director" means the Director of the Administration.
(e) "Energy emergency" has the meaning stated in § 14-301 of this title.
(f) "Person" includes a federal, State, or local government or an agency or instrumentality of a federal, State, or local government.
(g) "Prime supplier" means the supplier who makes the first sale into the State distribution system of a State set-aside product that is intended for consumption in the State.
(h) "State set-aside product" means a product to which the State set-aside program applies.
(i) "State set-aside program" means the State standby petroleum fuel set-aside program.
(j) "State set-aside volume" means the State set-aside percentage level for a particular State set-aside product applied to a particular prime supplier's estimated part of its total supply for a particular time period that will be sold into the State distribution system for consumption in the State.
(k) "Supplier" means a business entity or a part or subsidiary of a business entity that supplies, sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes, including by consignment, a State set-aside product to consumers or wholesale purchaser-resellers.
(l) "Wholesale purchaser-reseller" means a business entity that:
(1) purchases, receives through transfer, or otherwise obtains, including by consignment, a State set-aside product; and
(2) resells or otherwise transfers the State set-aside product to other purchasers without substantially changing its form.
