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OHIO ADMINISTRATIVE CODE ANNOTATED
4901:5 DIVISION OF FORECASTING
CHAPTER 4901:5-33 TRANSPORTATION FUEL EMERGENCY
Date:
09/28/2012
Document:
4901:5-33-06. Third stage actions.
The chairman may recommend to the governor that:
(A) Nonpriority uses of transportation fuels be prohibited within the time frame determined by the governor.
(B) Any nonpriority transportation fuel end user, other than a public authority, with a storage capacity of ten thousand gallons or more, report within the time frame determined by the governor to the commission the current product type and volume stockpiled.
(C) With respect to sale and use of transportation fuels.
(1) Retail gasoline and diesel fuel stations may sell gasoline or diesel fuel only in accordance with the following procedures:
(a) On even-numbered days of the month, fuel may be sold to and purchased by the operator or occupant of a vehicle having a license plate the last numeral of which is even. For purposes hereof, the numeral zero shall be even;
(b) On odd-numbered days of the month, fuel may be sold to and purchased by the operator or occupant of a vehicle having a license plate the last numeral of which is odd;
(c) A vehicle having a license plate with no numerals shall be odd or even based on the number of letters on the license plate;
(d) A "free day" is a day when odd and even sales and purchases are permissible. The thirty-first day of January, March, May, July, August, October, December and the twenty-ninth day of February (leap year) are designated as "free days."
(2) Service stations shall estimate the amount of each fuel they can pump each day and remain open for limited hours of operation. Based on this amount of fuel(s) available to them each day, each service station shall have prominently displayed a sign visible for the street indicating that:
(a) The station is out of gasoline but open for other business;
(b) Gasoline sales are limited to priority uses and emergencies;
(c) Gasoline sales will be made to license plate holders with odd-numbered digits;
(d) Gasoline sales will be made to license plate holders with even-numbered digits.
Service station operators may display different signs at different times of day at their discretion.
(3) Retail gasoline station customers shall be required to purchase a minimum amount of gasoline for automobiles. The specific minimum purchase volume shall be set by the governor based on the extent of the emergency.
(4) The commission may designate certain transportation fuel supply terminals, bulk supply plants, and/or retail service stations or portions thereof as "priority use" supply only. One-time emergency fuel needs and priority use needs of customers without suppliers shall be met at these designated locations.
(5) Not more than two gallons of transportation fuel may at any time be sold or purchased for delivery into a container, other than the fuel tank of a vehicle, to be transported away from the premises of the retail seller. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to authorize the sale of gasoline in any container not satisfying applicable safety requirements.
(6) The application of this rule may exclude any person or class necessary to avoid threat to life, property, public health, or safety.
(D) All persons report stocks of transportation fuels to the commission.
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