Terms Used In Iowa Code 452A.9

  • Blender: means a person who owns and blends ethanol with gasoline to produce ethanol blended gasoline and blends the product at a nonterminal location. See Iowa Code 452A.2
  • Dealer: means a person, other than a distributor, who engages in the business of selling or distributing motor fuel or special fuel to the end user in this state. See Iowa Code 452A.2
  • Importer: means a person who imports motor fuel or undyed special fuel in bulk or transport load into the state by truck, rail, or barge. See Iowa Code 452A.2
  • Licensee: means a person holding an uncanceled supplier's, restrictive supplier's, importer's, exporter's, dealer's, user's, or blender's license issued by the department under this subchapter or any prior motor fuel tax law or any other person who possesses fuel for which the tax has not been paid. See Iowa Code 452A.2
  • Motor fuel: means motor fuel as defined in section 214A. See Iowa Code 452A.2
  • Person: means any individual, firm, association, partnership, joint stock company, joint adventure, corporation, trustee, agency, or receiver, or any legal representative of any of the foregoing. See Iowa Code 453A.42
  • Restrictive supplier: means a person who imports motor fuel or undyed special fuel into this state in tank wagons or in small tanks not otherwise licensed as an importer. See Iowa Code 452A.2
  • Special fuel: means fuel oils and all combustible gases and liquids suitable for the generation of power for propulsion of motor vehicles or turbine-powered aircraft, and includes any substance used for that purpose, except that it does not include motor fuel. See Iowa Code 452A.2
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Supplier: includes a person who does not meet the jurisdictional connection to this state but voluntarily agrees to act as a supplier for purposes of collecting and reporting the motor fuel or special fuel tax. See Iowa Code 452A.2
 Every person other than a licensed supplier, restrictive supplier, importer, or blender, who purchases, brings into this state, or otherwise acquires within this state motor fuel or undyed special fuel, not otherwise exempted, which the person has knowingly not paid or incurred liability to pay either to a licensee or to a dealer the motor fuel or special fuel tax, shall be subject to the provisions of this subchapter that apply to suppliers, restrictive suppliers, importers, and blenders of motor fuel or undyed special fuel and shall file the same returns and make the same tax payments and be subject to the same penalties for delinquent filing or nonfiling or delinquent payment or nonpayment as apply to suppliers, restrictive suppliers, importers, and blenders.