Read 1st time February 3, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 414.073, RSMo 1994, relating to tank wagons, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 414.073, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 414.073, to read as follows:
414.073. 1. Each tank wagon used in the wholesale or retail marketing of gasoline, gasoline-alcohol blend, kerosene, heating oil, diesel fuel, and aviation turbine fuel shall be equipped with meters or other measuring devices for the measurement of the product in terms of gallons or liters and shall not be equipped with a bypass around such meters.
2. The director shall at least once each year test the measuring devices on tank wagons used in the retail or wholesale delivery of motor fuel, aviation turbine fuel, heating oil, diesel fuel, gasoline, gasoline-alcohol blend, or kerosene. When such devices are found to be inaccurate, he shall order the correction, removal or discontinuance of same.
3. Test procedures, specifications, tolerances, and technical requirements shall be governed by the National [Bureau] Institute of Standards and Technology, Handbook 44, and supplements thereto except insofar as specifically modified, amended or rejected by a regulation issued by the director.
4. The director shall condemn all meters which do not meet the requirements contained in National [Bureau] Institute of Standards and Technology, Handbook 44, vehicle tank meter section, or its successor publication unless such requirements have been specifically modified, amended or rejected by a regulation issued by the director.
5. No meter which has been condemned shall be used for commercial purposes. All condemned meters shall be
conspicuously marked "inaccurate".
Missouri House of Representatives