§ 6-410. Definitions.  


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  • The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

    Department means the Finance Department of the village, as provided in chapter 2.

    Director means the Finance Director of the village, as provided in chapter 2.

    Person means any individual, firm, trust, estate, partnership, association, corporation, joint venture, joint stock company, receiver, trustee, conservator, legal representative, or other legally recognized entity.

    Retail dealer or retail vehicle fuel dealer means any person who is engaged in the business of selling vehicle fuel in the village to a purchaser for the purchaser's use or consumption, and not for resale in any form.

    Sale at retail means any sale to a person for that person's use or consumption and not for resale to another.

    Sale, resale, or purchase means any transfer of ownership or title or both, any exchange or any barter, whether conditional or otherwise, in any manner or by any means whatsoever for consideration.

    Use means the exercise of any right to or power over vehicle fuel incident to the ownership thereof, including, but not limited to, the receipt of vehicle fuel by any person into a fuel supply tank of a vehicle.

    Vehicle means any machine or device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a rail, street, road highway or otherwise upon land, in or upon water, or through the air. The term "vehicle" includes without limitation automobiles, trucks, buses, trains, motorcycles, boats, and aircraft.

    Vehicle fuel means any volatile and inflammable liquid or gas produced, blended or compounded for the purpose of or which is suitable for operating a vehicle, or which is used in propelling a vehicle. The term "vehicle fuel" includes without limitation gasoline, gasohol, diesel oil, ethanol, motor benzol, motor benzene, propane gas fuel, kerosene and "special fuel" as that term is defined in the Illinois Motor Fuel Tax Law, as amended (ILCS ch. 35, act 505 § 1.13), and blends thereof.

(Code 1993, § 6-10.5.2; Ord. No. 2006-O-75, 9-26-2006)