Whenever used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall be construed as follows:

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 12-455a

  • company: means any person, partnership, association, company, limited liability company or corporation, except an incorporated municipality. See Connecticut General Statutes 12-1
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • farm: includes farm buildings, and accessory buildings thereto, nurseries, orchards, ranges, greenhouses, hoophouses and other temporary structures or other structures used primarily for the raising and, as an incident to ordinary farming operations, the sale of agricultural or horticultural commodities. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Fuels: means (1) fuels as defined in §. See Connecticut General Statutes 12-455a
  • Person: means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, association, copartnership, company, firm or other aggregation. See Connecticut General Statutes 12-455a

(a) “Distributor” means (1) any person, wherever resident or located, who or which imports fuels or causes fuels to be imported into this state, for sale or use, (2) any person who or which produces, refines, manufactures or compounds fuels within this state, (3) any person who or which distributes fuels by tank wagon in this state, and (4) any person who or which stores fuels in this state in a tank or other container having a capacity equaling or exceeding an amount established by the commissioner for purposes of the determination required in accordance with this subdivision;

(b) “Fuels” means (1) fuels as defined in § 14-1 and (2) any other combustible gas or liquid suitable for the generation of power to propel motor vehicles;

(c) “Motor vehicle” means any vehicle propelled or drawn by any power other than muscular, except aircraft, motorboats, road rollers, baggage trucks used about railroad stations, electric battery-operated wheel chairs when operated by persons with physical disabilities at speeds not exceeding fifteen miles per hour, agricultural tractors, farm implements and such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks;

(d) “Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, association, copartnership, company, firm or other aggregation;

(e) “Connecticut motor bus company” means any common carrier motor bus company, organized in this state and engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, to which a certificate has been issued under § 13b-80 and seventy-five per cent of whose gross operating revenue is derived from operations within this state.