§706. Fees

            In order to implement this Part, every person engaged in the transportation of hazardous liquids or who owns or operates intrastate pipeline facilities for the transportation of hazardous liquids shall be assessed an annual fee which shall not exceed forty-four dollars and eighty cents for each mile or fraction thereof of pipeline operated or eight hundred dollars per pipeline facility, whichever is greater. The secretary shall annually review the fee amount and may revise it not to exceed forty-four dollars and eighty cents per mile in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. All fees collected by the secretary shall be reasonably related to the services provided and shall be used by the department solely for the purposes of that program.

            Acts 1987, No. 794, §1; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 86, §1; Acts 2003, No. 711, §1, eff. June 27, 2003; Acts 2004, No. 222, §1; Acts 2016, No. 435, §1; Acts 2025, No. 458, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 2025.