Pennsylvania Act 2024-76 — AGRICULTURE CODE (3 PA.C.S.) - METER REQUIRED

Act text

Session of 2024

No. 2024-76

HB 1889

AN ACT

Amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in weights and measures, further providing for meter required.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 4180(a) of Title 3 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by adding a subsection to read:

§ 4180. Meter required.

(a) Metered vehicle.--No person shall deliver light fuel oils to any domestic consumer unless the vehicle by which such light fuel oils are delivered is equipped with a meter of a type capable of furnishing a printed delivery ticket approved under provisions of Subchapter D (relating to device type approval). Each meter-printed delivery ticket shall bear a printed nonrepetitive serial number. All deliveries of light fuel oil to [such] domestic consumers shall be made by the use of a meter and a meter-printed delivery ticket rendered the [customer] domestic consumer at the time of delivery or with the invoice. For meters equipped with the capability of issuing an electronic receipt, ticket or other recorded representation, the domestic consumer may be given the option to receive the meter-printed delivery ticket electronically in lieu of or in addition to a printed delivery ticket. A seller or deliverer may not impose a separate fee for domestic consumers to accept or receive a delivery ticket by any method, including a meter-printed delivery ticket or electronic version of the meter-printed delivery ticket. The seller or deliverer shall maintain the receipts for two years in an orderly and retrievable manner.

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(c) Electronic delivery ticket.--

(1) An electronic delivery ticket may only be provided to the domestic consumer if agreed to by the domestic consumer and if the technology is available to the deliverer of light fuel oils.

(2) The electronic delivery ticket shall contain all information required under subsection (b).

Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

APPROVED--The 17th day of July, A.D. 2024.

JOSH SHAPIRO