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A.(1)  Every supplier, dealer, or user licensed, or required by law to secure a license, to sell, deliver, or to use special fuels, shall keep a complete record of all special fuels purchased or received and sold, delivered, or used by them showing for each purchase, receipt, sale, delivery, or use:

(a)  The date;

(b)  The name and address of the seller or of the person from whom received, and if sold or delivered in bulk quantities, the name and address of the purchaser or recipient;

(c)  An accurate record of the number of gallons of each product used for taxable purposes with quantities measured by a meter; and

(d)  Inventories of special fuels on hand at the end of each month except for those special fuels in a tank marked “Not for Motor Vehicle Use.”

(2)  These records shall be kept until the taxes to which they relate have prescribed, and shall be open to inspection by the secretary of revenue or his authorized representative upon request.

B.(1)  For each bulk sale and delivery of special fuels, whether or not subject to tax hereunder, the record required shall include an invoice with serial numbers printed thereon showing the name and address of both the supplier and purchaser, and the complete information set out hereinabove for each such sale, one counterpart of which shall be delivered to the purchaser and another counterpart kept by the supplier or dealer for the period of time and purpose above provided.

(2)(a)  For each delivery of special fuels into the fuel supply tank of a motor vehicle, the required record shall include a serially numbered invoice issued in not less than duplicate counterparts on which shall be printed, or stamped with a rubber stamp the name and address of the supplier, dealer, or user making such delivery and on which shall be shown, in spaces to be provided on such invoice, the date of delivery, the number of gallons, the kind of special fuels delivered, the total mileage of the motor vehicle into which delivered, such mileage to be evidenced by odometer or hub meter reading or in the case of interstate passenger buses registered with the Interstate Commerce Commission by such documentation acceptable by the secretary, and the state highway license number or unit number of said motor vehicle.  The invoice shall reflect that the tax has been paid or accounted for on each of the products delivered.  One counterpart of the invoice shall be kept by the supplier, dealer, or user making such delivery as a part of his record and for the period of time and purposes hereinabove provided.  Another counterpart shall be delivered to the operator of the motor vehicle and carried in the cab compartment of the motor vehicle for inspection by the secretary or his representatives, until the fuel it covers has been consumed.

(b)  With respect to users who purchase in bulk, for each delivery of special fuels into the fuel supply tank of a motor vehicle the required record shall include a serially numbered invoice issued in not less than duplicate counterparts on which shall be typed, handwritten, printed, or stamped with a rubber stamp the name and address of the supplier, dealer, or user making such delivery and on which shall be shown, in spaces to be provided on such invoice, the date of delivery, the number of gallons, the kind of special fuels delivered, the total mileage of the motor vehicle into which delivered, such mileage to be evidenced by odometer or hub meter reading or in the case of interstate passenger buses registered with the Interstate Commerce Commission by such documentation acceptable by the secretary, and the state highway license number or unit number of said motor vehicle.  The invoice shall reflect that the tax has been paid or accounted for on each of the products delivered.  One counterpart of the invoice shall be kept by the supplier, dealer, or user making such delivery as a part of his record and for the period of time and purposes hereinabove provided.  Another counterpart shall be delivered to the operator of the motor vehicle and carried in the cab compartment of the motor vehicle for inspection by the secretary or his representatives, until the fuel it covers has been consumed.

(3)  In lieu of the invoices required herein, a computer record generated by a cardlock or meter system may be used for purposes of substantiating a claim for a tax refund otherwise provided by law which is submitted by a Louisiana bonded interstate user or a user licensed under the provisions of the International Fuel Tax Agreement to the Department of Revenue for special fuels purchased or received, and sold, delivered or used, where such special fuels were purchased or received from an attended or unattended location through use of a cardlock or meter system maintained and controlled by a supplier licensed for the tax free purchase of special fuels, provided that such records contain the information required in Subsection A of this Section as applicable, and notwithstanding that the computer record may contain such information for multiple special fuels transactions.

C.(1)  The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the owner or operator of a private passenger motor vehicle or truck having a gross weight of six thousand pounds or less which is propelled by an internal combustion engine or motor which uses a fuel taxed under the provisions of this Part other than liquefied petroleum gas or compressed natural gas and which is licensed, or required to be licensed, for highway use.

(2)  The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the owner or operator of a motor vehicle, truck, or truck-tractor which is owned and operated exclusively for commercial use within this state by a business domiciled within this state, which is propelled by an internal combustion engine or motor which uses a fuel taxed under the provisions of this Part other than liquefied petroleum gas or compressed natural gas, and which is licensed, or required to be licensed, for highway use.

D.  On all deliveries of special fuels to a user by common or contract carriers, the shipper shall stamp on the manifest or bill of lading in letters not less than one-quarter inch high “Tax Paid” whenever the tax levied hereunder has been paid, and “Not For Motor Vehicle Use” whenever the tax levied hereunder has not been paid.  It shall be a violation of this Part for any driver for a carrier to deliver special fuels covered by a manifest or bill of lading stamped “Not For Motor Vehicle Use” into a tank marked “Tax-Paid Special Fuels”.

E.  The willful issuance of any invoice, bill of sale or receipt which is false, untrue or incorrect in any material particular or the alteration, or changing except for errors, or forging any such invoice, bill of sale or receipt, or any duplicate of any such receipt pertaining to special fuels, shall constitute a violation of this Part.

F.(1)  The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the owner or operator of a motor vehicle having a gross weight of ten thousand pounds or less which is propelled by an internal combustion engine or motor which uses liquefied petroleum gas or compressed natural gas as fuel if the owner or operator elects to pay the flat rate available under La. Rev. Stat. 47:802.3.

(2)  If the owner or operator of a vehicle described in Paragraph (1) elects to pay the variable rate available under La. Rev. Stat. 47:802.3, said owner or operator shall maintain records to verify total mileage of that vehicle in order to comply with the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 47:802.3.  The secretary shall provide for a procedure for such recordkeeping.

G.  The owner or operator of a motor vehicle having a gross weight in excess of ten thousand pounds which is propelled by an internal combustion engine or motor which uses liquefied petroleum gas or compressed natural gas as fuel shall maintain records to verify total mileage of that vehicle in order to comply with the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 47:802.3(B).  The secretary shall provide for a procedure for such recordkeeping.

H.  In lieu of the invoices required herein, a computer-generated record may be used for the purposes of substantiating the same information required on the invoices for which substituted.

Acts 1964, Ex. Sess., No. 3, §2; Acts 1982, No. 787, §1, Acts 1983, No. 164, §2, eff. June 24, 1983; Acts 1984, No. 654, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 1984; Acts 1985, No. 475, §1; Acts 1986, No. 879, §§1 and 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1987; Acts 1986, No. 727, §1; Acts 1990, No. 279, §1, eff. July 1, 1990; Acts 1991, No. 516, §1, eff. for taxable periods beginning on or after July 1, 1992; Acts 1995, No. 187, §1, eff. July 1, 1995; Acts 1995, No. 603, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996; Acts 1997, No. 658, §2; Acts 1997, No. 1210, §1; Acts 1999, No. 202, §2, applicable to taxable periods beginning on or after July 1, 1999; Acts 1999, No. 893, §1.