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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="11-301" title_number="11" title_name="Trade Regulation" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Gasohol and Gasoline Products Marketing Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Controlled outlet” means an outlet which is operated by a distributor or operated by company employees, a subsidiary company, commissioned agent, or by any person who manages the outlet on a fee arrangement with the distributor.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The distributor may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Require the dealer to refuse credit card purchases of gasohol; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Provide that any credit card it issues may not be used for the purchase of gasohol.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Dealer” means a person engaged in the retail sale of gasohol or gasoline products under a marketing agreement, at least 30 percent of whose gross revenue is derived from the retail sale of gasoline products.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Dealer” does not include an employee of a distributor.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Distributor” means a person who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Engages in the sale, consignment, or distribution of gasohol or gasoline products through retail outlets which he owns or leases; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Maintains an oral or written contractual relationship with a dealer for the sale of the products.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Distributor” includes any subsidiary or affiliated corporation in which a distributor holds at least 30 percent voting control.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Farm cooperative” means a cooperative organized under Subtitle 5 of Title 5 of the Corporations and Associations Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Gasoline products” includes gasohol.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Independent jobber” means an individual or corporation who purchases gasohol or gasoline products from a wholesaler for resale to a dealer.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Marketing agreement” means an oral or written agreement between a distributor and a dealer under which the dealer is granted the right, for the purpose of engaging in the retail sale of gasohol or gasoline products supplied by the distributor, to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Use a trademark, trade name, service mark, or other identifying symbol or name owned by the distributor; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Occupy premises owned, leased, or controlled by the distributor.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Person” includes an individual, corporation, business trust, statutory trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Retail sale” means the sale of a product for purposes other than resale.</text>
  </level>
</section>
