{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-47-2302","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 47-2302","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in §§ 47-2301 to 47-2315:\n\n(1)\nThe term “motor vehicle” means all vehicles propelled by internal-combustion engines, electricity, or steam, except traction engines, road rollers, and vehicles propelled only upon rails and tracks.\n\n(2)\nThe term “motor vehicle fuels” means gasoline, diesel fuel, and other volatile and flammable liquid fuels produced or compounded for the purpose of operating or propelling internal combustion engines. It also includes benzol, benzene, naphtha, kerosene, heating oils, all liquified petroleum gases, and all combustible gases and liquids suitable for the generation of power for propulsion of motor vehicles when advertised, offered for sale, sold for use, or used, alone, or blended or compounded with other products, for the purpose of operating or propelling internal combustion engines.\n\n(3)\nThe term “importer” means any person who brings into, or who produces, refines, manufactures, or compounds, in the District of Columbia motor vehicle fuel to be used by him or to be sold, kept for sale, bartered, delivered for value, or exchanged for goods.\n\n(4)\nThe term “distributor” means any person other than an importer or user, who purchases motor vehicle fuel for sale to another person for resale.\n\n(5)\nThe term “person” includes individual, partnership, corporation, and association.\n\n(6)\nThe term “Mayor” means the Mayor of the District of Columbia.\n\n(7)\nThe term “highways” means the right-of-way of streets, avenues, and roads, bridges, viaducts, underpasses, drainage structures, guard rails, signs, signals, curbing, and dikes, fills, and retaining walls necessary to support or protect the highway.\n\n(8)\nThe term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and all expenses incidental to the construction of a highway, including the acquisition of the necessary rights-of-way.\n\n(9)\nThe term “reconstruction” means a widening or a rebuilding of the highway or any portion thereof and of sufficient width and strength to care adequately for traffic needs, including all expenses incidental to the reconstruction of a highway and the acquisition of the necessary rights-of-way.\n\n(10)\nThe term “maintenance” means the constant making of needed repairs to preserve the highway.\n\n(11)\nThe term “improvement” means the betterment of a highway by construction, reconstruction, or resurfacing.\n\n(12)\nThe term “user” means anyone other than an importer or distributor who sells, uses, or otherwise disposes of, in the District of Columbia, motor-vehicle fuel upon which the tax imposed by this subchapter has not been paid.\n\n(13)\nThe term “established place of business” means a physical structure owned, leased, or rented by the fleet registrant and used as his or her main office. The physical structure shall be designated by a street number or road location, be opened during normal business hours, and have located within it:\n(A)\nA telephone or telephones publicly listed in the name of the fleet registrant;\n(B)\nA person or persons conducting the fleet registrant’s business; and\n(C)\nThe operational records of the fleet.\n\n(14)\nThe term “fleet” means one or more apportionable vehicles.\n\n(15)\nThe term “GVWR” means Gross Vehicle Weight Rating, specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a single vehicle.\n\n(16)\nThe term “International Fuel Tax Agreement” or “IFTA” means the interstate agreement on collecting and distributing fuel use taxes paid by motor carriers, developed under the auspices of the National Governors’ Association.\n\n(17)\nThe term “jurisdictional base” means the jurisdiction that an apportioned operator lists as his or her established place of business for the purpose of complying with the IFTA.\n\n(18)\nThe term “member jurisdiction” means a jurisdiction that is a member of the International Fuel Tax Association.\n\n(19)\nThe term “motor carrier” means an individual, partnership, or corporation engaged in the transportation of goods or persons.\n\n(20)\nThe term “owner” means any person, firm, or corporation other than the lienholder holding legal title to a vehicle.\n\n(21)\nThe term “properly registered vehicle” means a vehicle which has been registered in full compliance with the laws of all jurisdictions in which it is intended to operate.\n\n(22)\nThe term “reciprocity” means the reciprocal granting of rights and privileges to vehicles properly registered under the IFTA and to vehicles not so registered if such vehicles are subject to separate reciprocity agreements, arrangements, declarations, or understandings.\n\n(23)\nRepealed.\n\n(24)\n(A)\n\"Cost-of-living adjustment\" means the ratio of CPI for the preceding calendar year and the CPI for the base year.\n(B)\nFor the purposes of this paragraph, the term:\n(i)\n\"Base year\" means the calendar year ending December 31, 2020.\n(ii)\n\"CPI\" means the average of the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-MD-VA-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area (or such successor metropolitan statistical area that includes the District) for the preceding calendar year.","path":["Title 47. Taxation, Licensing, Permits, Assessments, and Fees. [Enacted title]","Chapter 23. Motor Fuel Tax.","Subchapter I. General Provisions."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/47-2302","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"3293f19703e35379a9e6372c628831a0dfc65ab6cd7e273180dde964f9a04151","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-47-2301.01","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-47-2303"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}