1. (a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.
2. (b) “Administration” means the Maryland Energy Administration.
3. (c) “Director” means the Director of the Administration.
4. (d) “Person” includes a federal, State, or local government or an agency or instrumentality of a federal, State, or local government.
5. (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.
6. (f) “Program” means the State Fuel Security Program.
7. (g) “State fuel security product” means a product to which the Program applies.
8. (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.

9. (i) “Wholesale purchaser-reseller” means a business entity that:

   1. (1) purchases, receives through transfer, or otherwise obtains, including by consignment, a State fuel security product; and
   2. (2) resells or otherwise transfers the State fuel security product to other purchasers without substantially changing its form.

Added by Acts 2023, c. 143, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2023.