# Florida · retail (nonrefiner) · prohibition — State below-cost motor fuel selling laws and minimum-markup percentages

For Florida · retail (nonrefiner) · prohibition, state is Florida; applies to is retail (nonrefiner); rule is prohibition; law name is Predatory practices unlawful; exceptions; statute citation is F.S. 526.304, recorded from its source on 2026-08-20; source re-checked 2026-09-01.

- **State:** Florida _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Applies to:** retail (nonrefiner) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Rule:** prohibition _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Law name:** Predatory practices unlawful; exceptions. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute citation:** F.S. 526.304 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **What is prohibited:** It is unlawful for any nonrefiner engaged in commerce in this state to sell any grade or quality of motor fuel at a retail outlet below nonrefiner cost, where the effect is to injure competition. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Exceptions:** An isolated, inadvertent incident involving activity prohibited pursuant to subsection (1) or subsection (3) shall not be a violation of this act. (b) A refiner’s sale below refiner cost or a nonrefiner’s sale below nonrefiner cost made in good faith to meet an equally low retail price of a competitor selling motor fuel of like grade in the same relevant geographic market which can be used in the same motor vehicle, or of the same or similar items in combination with motor fuel of like grade which can be used in the same motor vehicle, is not a violation of this act. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> (b) It is unlawful for any nonrefiner engaged in commerce in this state to sell any grade or quality of motor fuel at a retail outlet below nonrefiner cost, where the effect is to injure competition. (2)(a) An isolated, inadvertent incident involving activity prohibited pursuant to subsection (1) or subsection (3) shall not be a violation of this act. (b) A refiner’s sale below refiner cost or a nonrefiner’s sale below nonrefiner cost made in good faith to meet an equally low retail price of a competitor selling motor fuel of like grade in the same relevant geographic market which can be used in the same motor vehicle, or of the same or similar items in combination with motor fuel of like grade which can be used in the same motor vehicle, is not a violation of this act.

## Source

- http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0500-0599/0526/Sections/0526.304.html

Last verified: 2026-09-01. Review by: 2027-02-16.
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