Arizona Laws 42-5351. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 42-5351
- Business: includes all activities or acts, personal or corporate, that are engaged in or caused to be engaged in with the object of gain, benefit or advantage, either directly or indirectly, but does not include either:
(a) Casual activities or sales. See Arizona Laws 42-5001
- 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.
- Department: means the department of revenue. See Arizona Laws 42-1001
- Engaging: when used with reference to engaging or continuing in business, includes the exercise of corporate or franchise powers. See Arizona Laws 42-5001
- Jet fuel: means crude oil or any fraction of crude oil which is liquid at sixty degrees Fahrenheit and 14. See Arizona Laws 42-5351
- 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: includes an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, receiver or syndicate, this state or a county, city, municipality, district or any other political subdivision or agency of this state. See Arizona Laws 42-5351
- Retailer: includes every person engaging or continuing in the business of selling jet fuel for storage, use or other consumption or in the business of selling jet fuel owned by that person or others for storage, use or other consumption. See Arizona Laws 42-5351
- Sale: means any transfer of title or possession, or both, exchange, barter, lease or rental, conditional or otherwise, in any manner or by any means whatever, including consignment transactions and auctions and transactions facilitated by a marketplace facilitator on behalf of a marketplace seller, of tangible personal property or other activities taxable under this chapter, for a consideration, and includes:
(a) Any transaction by which the possession of property is transferred but the seller retains the title as security for the payment of the price. See Arizona Laws 42-5001
- Storage: means keeping or retaining jet fuel purchased from a retailer for any purpose except sale in the regular course of business or subsequent use solely outside this state. See Arizona Laws 42-5351
1. "Jet fuel" means crude oil or any fraction of crude oil which is liquid at sixty degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute, and petroleum-based substances comprised of a complex blend of hydrocarbons derived from crude oil through processes of separation, conversion, upgrading and finishing, such as motor fuels, residual fuel oils, lubricants, petroleum solvents and used oils when these products are expressly manufactured and blended for the purpose of effectively and efficiently operating jet or turbine powered aircraft.
2. "Person" includes an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, receiver or syndicate, this state or a county, city, municipality, district or any other political subdivision or agency of this state.
3. "Retail sale" means a sale for any purpose other than a sale for resale in the regular course of business.
4. "Retailer" includes every person engaging or continuing in the business of selling jet fuel for storage, use or other consumption or in the business of selling jet fuel owned by that person or others for storage, use or other consumption. If in the opinion of the department it is necessary for the efficient administration of this article to regard any salesmen, representatives, peddlers or canvassers as the agents of the dealers, distributors, supervisors or employers under whom they operate or from whom they obtain the jet fuel sold by them, regardless of whether they are selling on their own behalf or on behalf of such dealers, distributors, supervisors or employers, the department may so regard them and may regard the dealers, distributors, supervisors or employers as retailers for purposes of this article.
5. "Storage" means keeping or retaining jet fuel purchased from a retailer for any purpose except sale in the regular course of business or subsequent use solely outside this state.
6. "Use or consumption" means the exercise of any right or power over jet fuel incidental to owning the fuel except holding for sale or selling the fuel in the regular course of business.