67-3-812 - Dyed fuel pump display.

67-3-812. Dyed fuel pump display.

(a)  A vendor delivering dyed diesel fuel to consumers through pumps shall be required to prominently display on such pumps the language “Dyed Diesel Fuel Nontaxable Use Only Penalty for Taxable Use Off Highway, Not Legal for Motor Vehicle Use” as presently required by the internal revenue service or environmental protection agency. Such display shall remain a requirement until the general assembly, by statute, changes such requirements, notwithstanding either of such federal agencies altering or removing such requirement from its regulations.

(b)  The commissioner may assess a civil penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) for each month in violation, or portion of a month, against a person who fails to comply with this section.

[Acts 1997, ch. 316, § 1; T.C.A., § 67-3-1912.]