Section 8101.6 Of Article 1. Refunds On Certain Sales From California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 2. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 7. >> Article 1.
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. (a) No refund of any tax shall be granted on motor vehicle
fuel used in propelling passenger carrying vehicles, except six cents
($0.06) of the tax imposed upon each gallon of motor vehicle fuel
used in propelling passenger carrying vehicles used for the
transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit of the
following:
(1) Any transit district, transit authority, or city owning and
operating a local transit system itself or through a wholly owned
nonprofit corporation.
(2) Any private entity providing transportation services for the
transportation of people under contract or agreement, except general
franchise agreements, with a public agency authorized to provide
public transportation services, including, but not limited to, any
nonprofit corporation designated as a consolidated transportation
service agency pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 15975 of the
Government Code, which provides door-to-door transportation services
under contract or agreement with a transit district, transit
authority, or public agency authorized to provide transportation
services, but only for fuels consumed while providing services under
those contracts or agreements entered into subsequent to the
effective date of this act.
(3) Any passenger stage corporation subject to the jurisdiction of
the Public Utilities Commission when the motor vehicles of such
passenger stage corporation are exclusively operated in urban or
suburban areas or between cities in close proximity; provided,
however, that the exemption is not extended to any line or lines
operated by such passenger stage corporation which shall exceed 50
miles of one-way route mileage.
(4) Any common carrier of passengers operating exclusively on any
line or lines within the limits of a single city between fixed
termini or over a regular route, 98 percent of whose operations, as
measured by total route mileage operated, are exclusively within the
limits of a single city, and who by reason thereof is not a passenger
stage corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Public
Utilities Commission.
(b) The exemption provided for in subdivision (a) shall not be
applicable to motor vehicle fuel used by a charter-party carrier of
passengers. The term "charter-party carrier of passengers" has the
same meaning as that specified in Section 5360 of the Public
Utilities Code and shall further include those transportation
services described in subdivisions (a) and (e) of Section 5353 of the
Public Utilities Code, if such transportation service is rendered as
contract carriage and not as common carriage of passengers.
(c) There are in the State of California many private entities
providing public transportation services for the transportation of
people in vehicles other than buses under contract or agreement with
local government, transit districts or local bus transit operators.
It is the purpose of this section to provide relief from the payment
of fuel tax for gasoline fuel for those private entities only for
fuels consumed while providing these services.