Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 79-3490

  • Conservator: means an individual or corporation appointed by the court to act on behalf of a conservatee and possessed of some or all of the powers and duties set out in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • 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.
  • Director: means the director of taxation or the director's duly authorized deputy, agent or representative. See Kansas Statutes 79-3490
  • Gallon: means one United States standard gallon. See Kansas Statutes 79-3490
  • Highways: means the entire width between the boundary of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel, including a toll highway, and notwithstanding that the same may be temporarily closed for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair. See Kansas Statutes 79-34,108
  • LP-gas: means liquefied gasses, including liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas, composed predominantly of the hydrocarbons which exist in the gaseous state at a temperature of 60° Fahrenheit and at a pressure of 14. See Kansas Statutes 79-3490
  • LP-gas dealer: means any person in the business of handling LP-gas who delivers any part thereof into the fuel supply tank or tanks of a motor vehicle not then owned or controlled by such person. See Kansas Statutes 79-3490
  • LP-gas user: means the person who is the owner or operator of a motor vehicle at the time LP-gas is placed in the fuel supply tank or tanks thereof while such vehicle is within this state. See Kansas Statutes 79-3490
  • Motor fuel: means any liquid, regardless of its composition or properties, used to propel a motor vehicle, and includes the following types: Motor-vehicle fuels as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 79-34,108
  • motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 79-3401
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means any natural person, partnership, firm, association, joint stock company, syndicate or corporation, or any receiver, trustee, conservator or other officer appointed pursuant to law or by any court, state or federal. See Kansas Statutes 79-3490
  • public highways: means and includes every way or place, of whatever nature, generally open to the use of the public as a matter of right, for the purposes of vehicular travel and notwithstanding that the same shall have been temporarily closed for the purpose of construction, reconstruction or repair;

    (p) "received" means motor-vehicle fuel or special fuel produced, refined, prepared, distilled, manufactured, blended or compounded at any refinery or other place, in the state of Kansas by any person, or imported into this state from any other state, territory, or foreign country by pipeline or connecting pipeline at a pipeline terminal or pipeline tank farm for storage, shall be deemed to be "received" by such person thereat when the same shall have been loaded at such refinery, pipeline terminal, pipeline tank farm or other place, into tank cars, tank trucks or other container, or placed in any tank from which any withdrawals are made direct into tank cars, tank trucks or other types of transportation equipment, containers or facilities;

    (q) "retailer" means a person that engages in the business of selling or distributing motor fuels to the end user;

    (r) "school bus" means every motor vehicle that is: (1) Privately owned and contracted for, leased or hired by a school district or nonpublic school for the transportation of pupils or students to or from school or to or from school-related functions or activities; or (2) owned and operated by a school district or nonpublic school that is registered under the provisions of Kan. See Kansas Statutes 79-3401

  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Use: means the placing of LP-gas by an LP-gas dealer or LP-gas user into the fuel supply tank or tanks of any motor vehicle while such vehicle is within this state. See Kansas Statutes 79-3490

This act shall be known and may be cited as the “liquefied petroleum motor fuel tax law” and as so constituted shall be supplemental to the motor fuel tax law. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this act shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them herein:

(a) “Motor vehicle” means any self-propelled vehicle licensed for operation and operated upon the public highways, except for municipally owned vehicles used primarily for law enforcement purposes.

(b) “LP-gas” means liquefied gasses, including liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas, composed predominantly of the hydrocarbons which exist in the gaseous state at a temperature of 60° Fahrenheit and at a pressure of 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute and which may be used for the purpose of operating or propelling motor vehicles upon the public roads, state highways, streets or alleys.

(c) “Public highways” means and includes every way or place of whatever nature generally open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular travel, including a toll highway and notwithstanding that the same shall have been temporarily closed for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, or repair.

(d) “Person” means any natural person, partnership, firm, association, joint stock company, syndicate or corporation, or any receiver, trustee, conservator or other officer appointed pursuant to law or by any court, state or federal.

(e) “Use” means the placing of LP-gas by an LP-gas dealer or LP-gas user into the fuel supply tank or tanks of any motor vehicle while such vehicle is within this state.

(f) “LP-gas dealer” means any person in the business of handling LP-gas who delivers any part thereof into the fuel supply tank or tanks of a motor vehicle not then owned or controlled by such person.

(g) “LP-gas user” means the person who is the owner or operator of a motor vehicle at the time LP-gas is placed in the fuel supply tank or tanks thereof while such vehicle is within this state.

(h) “Gallon” means one United States standard gallon.

(i) “Director” means the director of taxation or the director’s duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.

(j) “Special LP-gas permit user” means any person causing the operation of one or more LP-gas motor vehicles in Kansas and who holds a special LP-gas user permit.