Section 13410.

(a) No person who is engaged in the business of extracting oil or gas from lands within the state, or of refining gasoline for sale within the state, may refuse to sell to any city or county sufficient quantities of his or her petroleum products for the essential services provided by such city or county.

(b) The board of supervisors of a county or its designated county agency, upon application for the purchase of petroleum products to perform essential services by a city within that county, by any agency of such city or county which performs an essential service, or by any transit district created pursuant to law, may arrange for such purchase and shall apportion the purchase among all persons specified in subdivision (a) who engage in the sale of petroleum products within that county. The board of supervisors or its designated county agency shall, to the extent possible, apportion the total purchase of the petroleum product on the basis of such persons' sales of such petroleum product in the county during the most recent 90-day period for which information is available.

(c) For the purposes of this section, "essential services" means police, fire, health, and transportation services provided by public agencies.

(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 636, Sec. 5.)