(a) The record of all purchases, receipts, sales, distribution and use of gasoline of every distributor or retailer shall at all times during the business hours of the day be subject to inspection by the Department of Transportation or by any agent or employee duly authorized by it.

Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5123

  • Department: means Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
  • Distributor: includes any person, association of persons, firm or corporation, wherever resident or located, who imports or causes to be imported into the State gasoline, as defined in this section, for use, distribution, storage or sale after the gasoline reaches the State or who, being in the business of selling and or distributing gasoline in bulk quantities, desires to purchase gasoline tax free from another distributor for resale within this State or for export from this State; and also any person, association of persons, firm or corporation who produces, refines, manufactures or compounds, or causes to be produced, refined, manufactured or compounded gasoline as defined in this section within the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
  • Gasoline: includes all products commonly or commercially known or sold as gasoline, including gasohol, casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline, aviation gasoline and all flammable liquids composed of a mixture of selected hydrocarbons expressly manufactured and blended for the purpose of effectively and efficiently operating spark-ignited internal combustion engines. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
  • Retailer: means any person engaged in the sale of gasoline within this State who is not licensed as a distributor. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
  • Use: means the receipt, delivery or placing of special fuel by a special fuel user into the fuel supply tank or tanks of any motor vehicle while such vehicle is within this State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5131

(b) The Department shall make an inspection of the records of all purchases, receipts, sales, distribution and use of gasoline of every distributor or retailer to the extent deemed necessary by the Secretary, by or through such agent or employee as may be duly authorized by it, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the distributors or retailers are complying with this chapter. If it is found that the distributors or retailers are not complying with this chapter, the Department shall report to the Attorney General in what respects the distributors or retailers are failing to so comply with this chapter.

30 Del. C. 1953, § ?5123; 54 Del. Laws, c. 107; 57 Del. Laws, c. 741, §§ ?24B, 24C; 58 Del. Laws, c. 203, § ?2; 59 Del. Laws, c. 216, §§ ?2, 3; 62 Del. Laws, c. 380, § ?18; 68 Del. Laws, c. 290, § ?184;