Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:58-b

  • Alternative fuel: means any source of fuel, other than motor fuel and electricity, used to propel a motor vehicle over the ways of the state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:3-d
  • Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of safety. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:13
  • Gasoline: shall mean all products commonly or commercially known or sold as gasoline, including casinghead and absorption of natural gasoline, regardless of their classification or uses, and any liquid prepared, advertised, offered for sale, or sold for use as or commonly and commercially used as a fuel in internal combustion engines, which when subjected to distillation in accordance with the standard method of test for distillation of gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, and similar petroleum products (ASTM Designation D-86) show not less than 10 percent distilled (recovered) below 347 degrees Fahrenheit (175 degrees Centigrade) and not less than 95 percent distilled (recovered) below 464 degrees Fahrenheit (240 degrees Centigrade); provided that the term gasoline shall not include commercial solvents or naphthas which distill by ASTM method D-86 not more than 9 percent at 176 degrees Fahrenheit and which have a distillation range of 150 degrees Fahrenheit or less, or liquified gases which would not exist as liquid at a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit and a pressure of 14. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:37-b
  • Motor fuel: shall mean all products used in an internal combustion engine for the generation of power to propel motor vehicles or mechanical contrivances on or over the ways of this state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:58
  • Special fuel: shall mean all products, except gasoline, propane, natural gas, or liquified natural gas, used in an internal combustion engine for the generation of power to propel motor vehicles or mechanical contrivances on or over the ways. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 259:103-a
“Motor fuel equivalent gallon” means the volume of alternative fuel it takes to equal the energy content of one gallon of gasoline or special fuel. The commissioner of safety shall adopt in rules under N.H. Rev. Stat. § 260:57 the applicable conversion rates for motor fuel equivalent gallons for compressed natural gas, liquid natural gas, and propane based on nationally recognized standards for weights and measures.