Arizona Laws 49-571. Clean burning or alternative fuel requirements for new buses; definitions
A. A city, town or county which purchases buses for use in a county with a population of more than five hundred thousand persons shall only purchase buses which operate on clean burning fuel or alternative fuel, except that a city or town in area A, as defined in section 49-541, in a county with a population of more than one million two hundred thousand persons, shall also comply with Section 9-500.04, subsection F.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 49-571
- Alternative fuel: means :
(a) Electricity. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Clean burning fuel: means :
(a) An emulsion of water-phased hydrocarbon fuel that contains not less than twenty percent water by volume and that complies with any of the following:
(i) Is used in an engine that is certified to meet at a minimum the United States environmental protection agency low emission vehicle standard pursuant to 40 C. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
B. If a city, town or county is unable to purchase a sufficient number of buses which operate on clean burning fuel or alternative fuel to meet the requirements of subsection A due to the unavailability of those types of buses, the city, town or county shall convert a sufficient number of buses in their present fleet which operate on any fuel listed in subsection C so that the number of the converted buses along with the buses operating on clean burning fuel or alternative fuel equals or exceeds the amount required pursuant to subsection A.
C. For the purposes of this article, "alternative fuel" and "clean burning fuel" have the same meaning prescribed in section 1-215.