Title 42, Title 42 Affairs and Government

This chapter may be known and cited as the “Petroleum Allocation Act.”

(a) The general assembly finds that: (1) in the absence of mandatory allocation and price controls, and as a result of the unavailability of imports sufficient to satisfy Rhode Island’s energy needs, the state may unnecessarily experience shortages of residual fuel oil and refine…

For the purpose of this chapter: (1) “Liquid fossil fuel” means heating oils, light and heavy diesel oil, motor gasoline, propane, butane, residual fuel oils, kerosene, and aviation fuels. (2) “Prime supplier” means any individual, trustee, agency, partnership, association, corpo…

The governor, or the governor’s designee, shall promulgate any rules and regulations he or she deems essential to the development, implementation, and administration of a petroleum set-aside system and shall have the authority to establish that system. The petroleum set-aside sys…