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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 26a. Restrictions on the purchase of gasohol and synthetic motor fuel
(a) Limitations on the use of credit instruments; sales, resales,
and transfers
Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, it shall be
unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such
commerce, directly or indirectly to impose any condition,
restriction, agreement, or understanding that -
(1) limits the use of credit instruments in any transaction
concerning the sale, resale, or transfer of gasohol or other
synthetic motor fuel of equivalent usability in any case in which
there is no similar limitation on transactions concerning such
person's conventional motor fuel; or
(2) otherwise unreasonably discriminates against or
unreasonably limits the sale, resale, or transfer of gasohol or
other synthetic motor fuel of equivalent usability in any case in
which such synthetic or conventional motor fuel is sold for use,
consumption, or resale within the United States.
(b) Credit fees; equivalent conventional motor fuel sales; labeling
of pumps; product liability disclaimers; advertising support;
furnishing facilities
(1) Nothing in this section or in any other provision of law in
effect on December 2, 1980, which is specifically applicable to the
sale of petroleum products shall preclude any person referred to in
subsection (a) of this section from imposing a reasonable fee for
credit on the sale, resale, or transfer of the gasohol or other
synthetic motor fuel referred to in subsection (a) of this section
if such fee equals no more than the actual costs to such person of
extending that credit.
(2) The prohibitions in this section shall not apply to any
person who makes available sufficient supplies of gasohol and other
synthetic motor fuels of equivalent usability to satisfy his
customers' needs for such products, if the gasohol and other
synthetic fuels are made available on terms and conditions which
are equivalent to the terms and conditions on which such person's
conventional motor fuel products are made available.
(3) Nothing in this section shall -
(A) preclude any person referred to in subsection (a) of this
section from requiring reasonable labeling of pumps dispensing
the gasohol or other synthetic motor fuel referred to in
subsection (a) of this section to indicate, as appropriate, that
such gasohol or other synthetic motor fuel is not manufactured,
distributed, or sold by such person;
(B) preclude such person from issuing appropriate disclaimers
of product liability for damage resulting from use of the gasohol
or other synthetic motor fuel;
(C) require such person to provide advertising support for the
gasohol or other synthetic motor fuel; or
(D) require such person to furnish or provide, at such person's
own expense, any additional pumps, tanks, or other related
facilities required for the sale of the gasohol or other
synthetic motor fuel.
(c) "United States" defined
As used in this section, "United States" includes the several
States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United
States, and any insular possession or other place under the
jurisdiction of the United States.
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