# Public Safety (GPS)

## Title 14. Emergency Management

### Subtitle 5. State Fuel Security Program

#### Section 14-501

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Administration" means the Maryland Energy Administration.

(c) "Director" means the Director of the Administration.

(d) "Person" includes a federal, State, or local government or an agency or instrumentality of a federal, State, or local government.

(e) "Prime supplier" means a supplier that makes the first sale into the State distribution system of a State fuel security product that is intended for consumption in the State.

(f) "Program" means the State Fuel Security Program.

(g) "State fuel security product" means a product to which the Program applies.

(h) "Supplier" means a business entity or a part or subsidiary of a business entity that supplies, sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes, including by consignment, a State fuel security product to consumers or wholesale purchaser-resellers.

(i) "Wholesale purchaser-reseller" means a business entity that:

  (1) purchases, receives through transfer, or otherwise obtains, including by consignment, a State fuel security product; and

  (2) resells or otherwise transfers the State fuel security product to other purchasers without substantially changing its form.

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Md. Code Ann., Pub. Safety (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)