FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 479
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SINGLETON.
Read 1st time February 23, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time March 3, 1999, and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Environment.
Reported from the Committee March 9, 1999, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up March 24, 1999. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S2036.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 323.060, RSMo Supp. 1998, relating to petroleum gas retailers, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 323.060, RSMo Supp. 1998, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 323.060, to read as follows:
323.060. 1. No person shall engage in this state in the business of selling at retail of liquefied petroleum gas, or in the business of handling or transportation of liquefied petroleum gas over the highways of this state or in the business of installing or servicing equipment and appliances for use with liquefied petroleum gas without having first registered with the director of the department of agriculture. No person shall engage in this state in the business of selling at retail of liquefied petroleum gas unless such person [owns] maintains and operates one or more storage tanks located in the state of Missouri with a combined capacity of at least eighteen thousand gallons, except that such storage capacity requirements shall apply only to businesses engaged in bulk sales of liquefied petroleum.
2. Nonresidents of the state of Missouri desiring to engage in the business of distribution of liquefied petroleum gases at retail, or the business of installing, repairing or servicing equipment and appliances for use of liquefied petroleum gases shall comply with sections 323.010 to 323.110 and rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
3. All utility operations of public utility companies subject to the safety jurisdiction of the public service commission are exempt from the provisions of this section.