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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="14-501" title_number="14" title_name="Emergency Management" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="State Fuel Security Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Administration” means the Maryland Energy Administration.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Director” means the Director of the Administration.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Person” includes a federal, State, or local government or an agency or instrumentality of a federal, State, or local government.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Program” means the State Fuel Security Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“State fuel security product” means a product to which the Program applies.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Wholesale purchaser–reseller” means a business entity that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>purchases, receives through transfer, or otherwise obtains, including by consignment, a State fuel security product; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>resells or otherwise transfers the State fuel security product to other purchasers without substantially changing its form.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
