FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 5565

                                   C 42 L 87

BYSenate Committee on Parks & Ecology (originally sponsored by  Senators Kreidler, Lee and Bauer)

Requiring gasoline delivery trucks to have meters and supply receipts.

Senate Committee on Parks & Ecology

House Committe on Environmental Affairs

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

The Uniform Fire Code requires that service station owners keep accurate daily inventory records of their petroleum products.  Currently, they have no readily available mechanisms to determine the exact volume of gas entering the station's storage tanks.  The volume of gasoline changes readily in response to changes in temperature and pressure.  When 10,000 gallons of gasoline are loaded on a delivery truck, the actual volume delivered to the service station may be greater or less than 10,000 gallons. 

Because the service station owner cannot accurately inventory the gasoline, the owner cannot be sure storage tanks are not leaking.

SUMMARY:

Invoices will be presented to the service station owner by the person delivering the gasoline containing the following information:  The gross and the net volume of gasoline at 60 degrees F; the temperature of the gas and the time it is loaded onto the delivery truck; and the time the gas is delivered to the service station.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      Senate    48     1

      House 59  38

EFFECTIVE:July 26, 1987