Florida Statutes
Part I - Motor Fuels (Ss. 206.01-206.64)
206.09 - Reports from carriers transporting motor fuel or similar products.

(1) Every railroad company, pipeline company, water transportation company, private carrier, and common carrier transporting motor fuel, casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline, naphtha, or diesel fuel distillate, either in interstate or intrastate or foreign commerce, to points within Florida, and every person transporting motor fuel, casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline, naphtha, or diesel fuel distillate, by whatever manner, to a point in Florida from any point outside of said state, shall file monthly returns setting forth:
(a) The name under which such person is transacting business within the state.
(b) The location with street number address of such person’s principal office or place of business within the state.
(c) The name, federal employer identification number or, if such number is not available, the social security number, and business address of the owner or the names and addresses of the partners, if such person is a partnership, or the principal officers, if such person is a corporation or association.

(2) Such person or company shall report under oath to the department on forms prescribed by the department all deliveries of motor fuel, casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline, naphtha, or diesel fuel distillate so made to points within the state.
(3) Such reports shall cover monthly periods and be submitted within 20 days after the close of the month covered by the report and shall show:
(a) The name, federal employer identification number or, if such number is not available, the social security number, and complete business address of the person to whom the deliveries of motor fuel, casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline, naphtha, or diesel fuel distillate have actually and in fact been made;
(b) The name, federal employer identification number or, if such number is not available, the social security number, and complete business address of the originally named consignee, if motor fuel, casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline, naphtha, or diesel fuel distillate has been delivered to any person other than the originally named consignee;
(c) The municipality and state of origin, the municipality, county, and state of delivery, the date of delivery, and the number and initials of each tank car and the number of gallons contained therein, if shipped by rail;
(d) The name of the boat, barge, or vessel and the number of gallons contained therein, if shipped by water;
(e) The company unit number of each tank truck and the number of gallons contained therein, if transported by motor truck;
(f) If delivered by other means, the manner in which such delivery is made; and
(g) Such other additional information relative to shipments of motor fuel as the department may require.

(4) The department is authorized to suspend the reporting requirements of this section if substantially the same data is filed with the Internal Revenue Service and provided to the department through a national information reporting system.
(5) If any such person or company required to file under this section fails to make a complete report, the department shall impose, in addition to any other penalty or interest due, a penalty in the amount of $200.
(6) All moneys derived from the penalties imposed by this section shall be deposited into the Fuel Tax Collection Trust Fund and allocated in the same manner as provided by s. 206.875.
History.—s. 7, ch. 16082, 1933; CGL 1936 Supp. 1167(68); s. 7, ch. 63-253; s. 5, ch. 65-371; s. 2, ch. 65-420; ss. 21, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 70-995; s. 89, ch. 85-342; s. 55, ch. 87-99; s. 49, ch. 87-224; s. 11, ch. 92-320; s. 17, ch. 95-417; s. 11, ch. 2000-355; s. 7, ch. 2005-280.
Note.—Former s. 207.13.

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