82-15-202: Purpose.

This part is intended to compel a person, firm, company, association, or corporation doing business in the state of Montana and engaged in the selling of and dealing in standard petroleum products to treat a customer in one part of the state of Montana on an equal basis with a customer in another part of the state or in the nearest adjoining state and to promote the uniform application of the law of the state of Montana providing a tax on gasoline used by a motor vehicle when traveling over a public highway. This part shall be liberally construed to accomplish those purposes.