Sec. 606.5. (a) Every person included within the terms of section 606(a) and 606(c) of this chapter shall register with the administrator before engaging in those activities. The administrator shall issue a transportation license to a person who registers with the administrator under this section.

     (b) Every person included within the terms of section 606(a) of this chapter who transports gasoline in a vehicle on the highways in Indiana for purposes other than use and consumption by that person may not make a delivery of that gasoline to any person in Indiana other than a licensed distributor except:

(1) when the tax imposed by this chapter on the receipt of the transported gasoline was charged and collected by the parties; and

(2) under the circumstances described in section 205 of this chapter.

     (c) Every person included within the terms of section 606(c) of this chapter who transports gasoline in a vehicle upon the highways of Indiana for purposes other than use and consumption by that person may not, on the journey carrying that gasoline to points outside Indiana, make delivery of that fuel to any person in Indiana.

     (d) A distributor’s or an Indiana transportation license is required for a person or the person’s agent acting in the person’s behalf to operate a vehicle for the purpose of delivering gasoline within the boundaries of Indiana when the vehicle has a total tank capacity of at least eight hundred fifty (850) gallons.

     (e) The operator of a vehicle to which this section applies shall at all times when engaged in the transporting of gasoline on the highways have with the vehicle an invoice or manifest showing the origin, quantity, nature, and destination of the gasoline that is being transported.

     (f) The department shall provide for relief if a shipment of gasoline is legitimately diverted from the represented destination state after the shipping paper has been issued by a terminal operator or if a terminal operator failed to cause proper information to be printed on the shipping paper. Provisions for relief under this subsection:

(1) must require that the shipper or its agent obtain a diversion number within twenty-four (24) hours of the diversion and report the number on the shipper’s or agent’s monthly return to the department; and

(2) must be consistent with the refund provisions of this chapter.

As added by P.L.69-1991, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.129-2001, SEC.10; P.L.182-2009(ss), SEC.234; P.L.234-2019, SEC.18; P.L.146-2020, SEC.32.