Nevada Code § 590.020

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As
used in NRS 590.010 to 590.330 , inclusive, unless the context
otherwise requires:
1. Additives means a substance to be
added to a motor vehicle fuel, petroleum heating product, motor oil or
lubricating oil to impart or improve desirable properties or to suppress
undesirable properties.
2. Advertising medium means any sign,
printed or written matter, or device for oral or visual communication.
3. Alternative fuel includes, without
limitation:
(a) Any M-85 or M-100 fuel methanol that meets
the specifications for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070 ;
(b) Any E-85 or E-100 fuel ethanol that meets the
specifications for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070 ;
(c) Liquefied petroleum gas;
(d) Natural gas;
(e) Any hydrogen that meets the specifications
for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070 ;
(f) Electricity;
(g) Any biodiesel fuel that contains:
(1) Diesel that meets the specifications
for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070 ; and
(2) At least 5 percent by volume biodiesel
fuel blend stock for distillate fuels;
(h) Any blend of ethanol and diesel fuel:
(1) That contains:
(I) Any amount of diesel fuel that
meets the specifications for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant
to NRS 590.070 ; and
(II) At least 5 percent by volume
ethanol; and
(2) That may contain a proprietary
additive; and
(i) Any renewable diesel fuel that:
(1) Contains at least 20 percent by volume
renewable diesel blend stock for distillate fuels; and
(2) If a part of a blend stock, contains
diesel that meets the specifications for motor vehicle fuel adopted by
regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070 .
The term
does not include a fuel that is required for use in this State pursuant to a
state implementation plan adopted by this State pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 7410.
4. Brand name means a name or logo that
is used to identify a business or company.
5. Diesel exhaust fluid means an aqueous
urea solution that:
(a) Contains, by mass, 32.5 percent technically
pure urea and 67.5 percent pure water;
(b) Is used in selective catalytic reduction to
lower oxides of nitrogen concentration in the exhaust emissions of diesel
engines; and
(c) Meets the standards set forth in the latest
version of ISO 22241, Diesel engines — NOx reduction agent AUS 32 of the
International Organization for Standardization.
6. Grade means:
(a) Regular, midgrade, plus, super,
premium or words of similar meaning when describing a grade designation for
gasoline.
(b) Diesel or words of similar meaning,
including, without limitation, any specific type of diesel, when describing a
grade designation for diesel motor fuel.
(c) M-85, M-100, E-85, E-100 or words of
similar meaning when describing a grade designation for alternative fuel.
(d) Propane, liquefied petroleum gas,
compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas or words of similar meaning
when describing pressurized gases.
7. Motor vehicle fuel means a petroleum
product or alternative fuel used for internal combustion engines in motor
vehicles. The term does not include motor vehicle fuel additives.
8. Performance rating means the system
adopted by the American Petroleum Institute for the classification of uses for
which an oil is designed.
9. Petroleum heating product means a
petroleum product that is used for heating purposes. The term does not include
petroleum heating product additives.
10. Petroleum products means gasoline,
diesel fuel, burner fuel kerosene, lubricating oil, motor oil or any product
represented as motor oil or lubricating oil. The term does not include
liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas or motor oil additives.
11. Pure water means water that is:
(a) Very low in inorganic, organic or colloidal
contaminants; and
(b) Produced by a process such as:
(1) Single distillation;
(2) Deionization;
(3) Ultra-filtration; or
(4) Reverse osmosis.
12. Recycled oil means a petroleum
product which is prepared from used motor oil or used lubricating oil. The term
includes rerefined oil.
13. Rerefined oil means used oil which
is refined after its previous use to remove from the oil any contaminants
acquired during the previous use.
14. Technically pure urea means urea
that is:
(a) An industrially produced grade of urea with
traces of biuret, ammonia and water only;
(b) Free of aldehydes or other substances,
including, without limitation, anticaking agents; and
(c) Free of contaminants, including, without
limitation, sulphur and its compounds, chloride and nitrate.
15. Used oil means any oil which has
been refined from crude or synthetic oil and, as a result of use, has become
unsuitable for its original purpose because of a loss of its original
properties or the presence of impurities, but which may be suitable for another
use or economically recycled.
16. Viscosity grade classification means
the measure of an oils resistance to flow at a given temperature according to
the grade classification system of the Society of Automotive Engineers or other
grade classification.

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