A. The department may issue a special thirty day motor carrier fee permit for a motor vehicle if the vehicle is not in the commercial transportation business, is in this state for a limited period of time and will make limited use of this state’s highways.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-5864

  • 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
  • Motor carrier: means a person who operates or causes to be operated a motor vehicle on a public highway. See Arizona Laws 28-5851
  • Motor vehicle: means a self-propelled motor driven vehicle that has a declared gross vehicle weight of more than twelve thousand pounds and that is subject to vehicle registration before lawful operation on the public highways in this state, excluding a motor vehicle that is exempt from gross weight fees pursuant to section 28-5432. See Arizona Laws 28-5851
  • 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

B. The motor carrier fee for a special thirty day permit is $96.

C. The director may authorize third parties to issue special thirty day motor carrier fee trip permits pursuant to this section in accordance with rules adopted by the director.

D. 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.

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