A. If a use class motor vehicle is propelled by use fuel and is operated in this state in the course of interstate traffic, the department may issue, in lieu of an interstate user license, a special single trip use fuel tax permit authorizing operation of the vehicle for a single trip through this state or from a point on the Arizona border to a point in this state and return to the border.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-5739

  • Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Highway: means any way or place in this state of whatever nature that is maintained by public monies and that is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel, including a highway under construction. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • In this state: means any way or place within the exterior limits of the state of Arizona that is maintained by public monies, including any such way or place that is owned by or ceded to the United States of America. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Motor vehicle: means a self-propelled vehicle required to be licensed or subject to licensing for operation on a highway. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • State: means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • State highway: means a state route or portion of a state route that is accepted and designated by the board as a state highway and that is maintained by the state. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Use: includes the placing of fuel into any receptacle on a motor vehicle from which fuel is supplied for the propulsion of the vehicle unless the operator of the vehicle establishes to the satisfaction of the director that the fuel was consumed for a purpose other than to propel a motor vehicle on a highway in this state and, with respect to fuel brought into this state in any such receptacle on a use class motor vehicle, the consumption of the fuel in this state. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Use class motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle that uses use fuel on a highway in this state and that is a road tractor, truck tractor, truck or passenger carrying vehicle having a declared gross vehicle weight of more than twenty-six thousand pounds or having more than two axles. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • Use fuel: includes all gases and liquids used or suitable for use to propel motor vehicles, except fuels that are subject to the motor vehicle fuel tax imposed by this article. See Arizona Laws 28-5601
  • User: includes a person who, within the meaning of the term use as defined in this section, uses fuel in a use class motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-5601

B. The fee for the single trip use fuel tax permit is $65 for more than fifty miles traveled on the highways in this state and $16 for fifty miles or less traveled on the highways in this state.

C. The single trip use fuel tax permit is valid for ninety-six hours.

D. The department:

1. Shall issue a single trip use fuel tax permit in duplicate.

2. May issue a single trip use fuel tax permit for a vehicle entering this state at Teec Nos Pos and exiting at Black Rock or entering this state at Black Rock and exiting at Teec Nos Pos even if the vehicle exits and reenters this state during the trip.

3. May issue a special thirty, ninety or one hundred eighty day use fuel tax permit for a use class motor vehicle if the vehicle is in this state for a limited time. The fees for these permits are as follows:

(a) For a thirty day permit, $130.

(b) For a ninety day permit, $390.

(c) For a one hundred eighty day permit, $780.

E. The director may authorize third parties to issue use fuel tax permits pursuant to this section in accordance with rules adopted by the director.

F. The director shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, fees collected pursuant to this section at ports of entry on the border between this state and Mexico as follows:

1. Fifty-five percent in the state highway fund established by section 28-6991.

2. Forty-five percent in the Arizona highway patrol fund established by section 41-1752.

G. The fees imposed pursuant to this section do not apply to a use class motor vehicle that is used in the production of:

1. Motion pictures, including films to be shown in theaters and on television.

2. Industrial, training and educational films.

3. Commercials for television.

4. Video discs.

5. Videotapes.

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