"Qualified highway vehicle operator" means any person licensed as a qualified highway vehicle operator that owns, operates, or otherwise controls a diesel-powered highway vehicle and delivers, or causes to be delivered, diesel fuel or any liquid into the fuel tank of a diesel-powered highway vehicle and is qualified to use dyed diesel fuel on the highway by the Internal Revenue Service under Section 48.4082-4 of Title 26 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Ca. Rev. and Tax. Code § 60027