§ 192-b. Fuel lead content labelling and requirements. 1. For purposes\nof this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:\n (a) "Distributor" shall mean any person who transports or stores or\ncauses the transportation or storage of gasoline at any point between\nany plant at which gasoline is produced and any retail outlet or\nfacility of a wholesale purchaser-consumer.\n (b) "Gasoline" shall mean any fuel sold for use in motor vehicles and\nmotor vehicle engines, and commonly or commercially known or sold as\ngasoline.\n (c) "Lead additive" shall mean any substance containing lead or lead\ncompounds.\n (d) "Leaded gasoline" shall mean gasoline which is produced with the\nuse of any lead additive or which contains more than five one hundredths\nof a gram of lead per gallon or more than five one thousandths of a gram\nof phosphorus per gallon.\n (e) "Refiner" shall mean any person who owns, leases, operates,\ncontrols or supervises a plant at which gasoline is produced.\n (f) "Reseller" shall mean any person who purchases gasoline identified\nby the corporate, trade or brand name of a refiner from such refiner or\na distributor and resells or transfers it to retailers or wholesale\npurchaser-consumers displaying the refiner's brand, and whose assets or\nfacilities are not substantially owned, leased or controlled by such\nrefiner.\n (g) "Retail outlet" shall mean any establishment at which gasoline is\nsold or offered for sale for use in motor vehicles.\n (h) "Retailer" shall mean any person who owns, leases, operates,\ncontrols, or supervises a retail outlet.\n (i) "Unleaded gasoline" shall mean gasoline which is produced without\nthe use of any lead additive and which contains not more than five one\nhundredths of a gram of lead per gallon and not more than five one\nthousandths of a gram of phosphorus per gallon.\n (j) "Wholesale purchaser-consumer" shall mean any organization that is\nan ultimate consumer of gasoline and which purchases or obtains gasoline\nfrom a supplier for use in motor vehicles and receives delivery of that\nproduct into a storage tank of at least five hundred fifty gallon\ncapacity substantially under the control of that organization.\n 2. No distributor shall sell or transfer to any other distributor,\nretailer or wholesale purchaser-consumer any gasoline which is\nrepresented to be unleaded unless such gasoline meets the defined\nrequirements for unleaded gasoline set forth in subdivision one of this\nsection.\n 3. No retailer or employee or agent of a retailer, and no wholesale\npurchaser-consumer or employee or agent of a wholesale\npurchaser-consumer, shall sell, dispense or offer for sale gasoline\nrepresented to be unleaded unless such gasoline meets the defined\nrequirements for unleaded gasoline set forth in subdivision one of this\nsection.\n 4. Every retailer and wholesale purchaser-consumer shall affix to each\ngasoline pump stand in a location so as to be readily visible to the\nemployees of such retailer or wholesale purchaser-consumer and to person\noperating motor vehicles into which gasoline is to be dispensed a\npermanent legible label as follows: (i) for gasoline pump stands\ncontaining pumps for introduction of unleaded gasoline into motor\nvehicles, the label shall state: "Unleaded gasoline"; and (ii) for\ngasoline pump stands containing pumps for introduction of leaded\ngasoline into motor vehicles, the label shall state: "Contains lead\nanti-knock compounds"; provided, however, that where more than one grade\nof unleaded gasoline is offered for sale at a retail outlet, compliance\nwith this subdivision is required for only one grade.\n 5. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, in any\nproceeding to adjudicate a violation of subdivision four of this\nsection, a retailer or wholesale purchaser-consumer may be found not to\nbe liable for violation thereof where it is shown that more than one\ngrade of gasoline is dispensed f
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