Delaware § 5229 - Cooperative agreements between states.

§ 5229. Cooperative agreements between states.

(a) The Secretary of the Department of Transportation may enter into cooperative agreements with other states, for exchange of information and auditing of users of motor fuels used in fleets of motor vehicles operated or intended to operate interstate. An agreement, arrangement, declaration or amendment thereto is not effective until executed and filed with the Department of Transportation.

(b) An agreement may provide for determining the base state for users, users records requirements, audit procedures, exchange of information, persons eligible for tax licensing, defining qualified motor vehicles, determining if bonding is required, specifying reporting requirements and periods including defining uniform penalty and interest rates for late reporting, determining methods for collecting and forwarding of motor carrier fuel use taxes and penalties to another jurisdiction and other provisions as will facilitate the administration of the agreement.

(c) The Department of Transportation may, as required by the terms of an agreement, forward to officers of another state any information in the Department’s possession relative to the manufacture, receipts, sale, use, transportation or shipment of motor fuels by any person. The Department of Transportation may disclose to officers of another state, the location of officers, motor vehicles and other real and personal property of users of motor fuels.

(d) An agreement may provide for each state to audit the records of persons based in the State, to determine if the motor carrier fuel use taxes due each state are properly reported and paid. Each state shall forward the findings of the audits performed on persons based in the State, to each state in which the person has taxable use of motor fuels. For persons not based in this State and who have taxable use of motor fuel in this State, the Department of Transportation may serve the auditing findings received from another state, in the form of an assessment, on the person as though an audit was conducted by the Department of Transportation.

(e) Any agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall not preclude the Department from auditing the records of any person covered by the provisions of this chapter.

(f) The legal remedies for any person served with an order or assessment under this section shall be as prescribed in this chapter.

(g) If the Department enter into any agreement under the authority of this section, and the provisions set forth in the agreement are in conflict with any other rules or regulations by the Department, the agreement’s provisions shall prevail notwithstanding.

68 Del. Laws, c. 156, §  53;  68 Del. Laws, c. 290, §§  184, 186, 187;