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I. All distillate heating oil sold at retail shall be sold by liquid measure or by net weight in accordance with the provisions of RSA 438:20.
II. In the case of each delivery of such liquid fuel not in package form and in an amount greater than 100 gallons in the case of sale by liquid measure, or 100 pounds in the case of sale by weight, there shall be rendered to the purchaser at the time of delivery a printed delivery ticket which shall clearly state the following:
(a) The name and address of the vendor;
(b) The name and address of the purchaser;
(c) The identity of the type of fuel comprising the delivery;
(d) The unit price, that is, the price per gallon or per pound, as the case may be, of the fuel delivered;
(e) In the case of sale by liquid measure, the liquid volume of the delivery shall be determined by a meter with a register printing the meter readings on a ticket from which such liquid volume shall be computed and expressed in terms of the gallon and its binary or decimal subdivisions (said ticket shall not be inserted into the register until immediately before delivery is begun, and in no case shall a ticket be in the register when the vehicle is in motion); or the liquid volume may be determined by a vehicle tank used as a measure when in full compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 44, as adopted by the National Conference of Weights and Measures, and calibrated by a weights and measures official. Sale by a liquid measuring device, as defined in said Handbook 44, and sale by a vapor meter are excluded from this paragraph;
(f) In the case of sales by weight, the net weight of the delivery, together with any weighing scale readings from which such net weight has been computed, expressed in terms of tons or pounds avoirdupois.
Source. 1985, 72:1. 1989, 324:13, eff. Aug. 1, 1989.
