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The following words used in this Part shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this Section, including singular as follows:

(1)  “Approved” shall mean approved by the office of the deputy secretary for public safety services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections.

(2)  “Artificial barricade” shall mean an artificial mound or revetted wall of earth of a minimum thickness of three feet.

(3)  “Barricaded”  shall mean that building containing explosives is effectively screened from a magazine, building, railway, or highway, either by a natural barricade or by an artificial barricade of such height that a straight line from the top of any sidewall of the building containing explosives to the eave line of any magazine or building, or to a point twelve feet above the center of a railway or highway, will pass through such intervening natural or artificial barricade.

(4)  “Blaster” shall mean a person employed by a primary licensee who detonates or otherwise effects the explosion of an explosive or who is in immediate personal charge and supervision of one or more other persons engaged in such activity.

(5)  “Combustible”  means any material with a flash point above 140° F and less than 200° F.

(6)  “Dealer-distributor” means a person engaged in the wholesale or retail business of buying and selling or distribution of explosives, provided that should a manufacturer make sales to users, such manufacturer shall not be required to obtain an additional license as a dealer.

(6.1)  “Deputy secretary” means the deputy secretary for public safety services of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections.

(7)  “Explosives” means any chemical compound, mixture, or device, the primary or common purpose of which is to function by explosion.  The term includes but is not limited to dynamite and other high explosives, black powder in quantities in excess of five pounds, pellet powder, initiating explosives, detonators, safety fuses, squibs, detonating cord, igniter cord, and igniters.  The term “explosives” further includes but is not limited to the following:

(a)  “Binary” (phosphoric) means two or more unmixed, commercially manufactured prepackaged chemical substances including oxidizers, flammable liquids or solids, or similar substances that are not independently classified as explosives but which when mixed or combined form a mixture that is classified as an explosive and that is intended for blasting.

(b)  “Blasting agent” means any material or mixture, consisting of fuel and oxidizer, intended for blasting, not otherwise defined as an explosive; provided, that the finished product, as mixed for use or shipment, cannot be detonated by means of a number eight test blasting cap when unconfined.

(c)  “Detonator” means any device containing an initiating or primary explosive that is used for initiating detonation in another explosive material.  A detonator may not contain more than ten grams of total explosives by weight, excluding ignition or delay charges.  The term includes but is not limited to electric blasting caps of instantaneous and delay types, blasting caps for use with safety fuses, detonating cord delay connectors, and nonelectric instantaneous and delay blasting caps which use detonating cord, shock tube, or any other replacement for electric leg wires.

(d)  Except as provided for in Subparagraph (e) of this Paragraph the term “explosive” shall not include smokeless powder when used in sporting arms.

(e)  “Exploding or explosive target” means two or more mixed, commercially manufactured prepackaged chemical substances including oxidizers, flammable liquids or solids, or similar substances that are not independently classified as explosives but which when mixed or combined in quantities greater than five pounds form a mixture that is classified as an explosive and designed primarily as a target for firearms practice.

(8)  “Factory building” shall mean any building or other structure, except magazines, containing explosives in which the manufacture of explosives or any processing involving explosives is carried on, and any building where explosives are used as a component part or ingredient in the manufacture of any article or device.  The definition does not include private residences or shop buildings where the handloading of small arms ammunition is being carried on.

(9)  “Flammable” means any material with a flash point of 140° F or less.

(9.1)  “Handler” shall mean a person who touches, moves, or otherwise handles explosives but does not detonate or otherwise effect the explosion of explosives or explosives materials.  The license issued to a handler shall not be used by a blaster or user who uses explosives as an ultimate consumer.

(10)  “Highway” shall mean any public street or public road, public highway, alley, or thoroughfare.  Public highways of Class A to D as applied to the American Table of Distances for Storage of Explosives are highways with an average traffic volume of three thousand or less vehicles per day as specified in American Civil Engineering Practice (Abbett, Vol. 1, Table 46, Section 3-74, 1956 Edition, John Wiley and Sons).

(11)  “Inhabited building” shall mean any building or structure regularly used in whole or part as a place of human habitation, also any church, school, store, railway passenger station, airport terminal for passengers, and any other building or structure where people are accustomed to congregate or assemble, but excluding buildings or structures occupied in connection with the manufacture, transportation, storage, and use of explosives.

(12)  “Local office” as applies to a user, means a structure, place of rental, such as an apartment or motel, or a movable such as a barge, ship, or vehicle, in the vicinity of the storage container.

(13)  “Magazine” shall mean any building, structure, or device used for temporary or permanent storage of explosives.  There shall be five types of magazines built and/or constructed in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this Part.  This definition does not apply to the storage of explosives in underground mining operations.

(14)  “Manufacturer” means a person engaged in the manufacture, compounding, or combining of explosives.

(15)  “Natural barricade” shall mean natural features of the ground such as hills, or timber of sufficient density that the surrounding exposures which require protection cannot be seen when the trees are bare of leaves.

(16)  “Offshore” shall apply to any work performed at locations accessible only by air or water when the work location is totally surrounded by water and explosives are secured and attended.

(17)  “Oxidizer” means a material that may, generally by yielding oxygen, cause or enhance the combustion of other materials.

(18)  “Person” means any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society, or joint stock company.

(19)  “Primary licensee” is the responsible party holding a valid manufacturer, dealer-distributor, or user license.

(20)  “Purchase” and its various forms as used shall include acquisition of any explosive by a person with or without consideration.

(21)  “Railroad” shall mean any steam, electric, diesel electric, or other railroad or railway which carries passengers for hire.

(22)  “Sale” and its various forms as used shall include delivery of an explosive with or without consideration.

(23)  “Secured area” means any location that is either locked or under the immediate control of a licensee.

(24)  “Temporary” shall mean no more than forty-eight hours.

(25)  “Unauthorized persons” means those persons not employed by the licensed company or authorized by the licensed manufacturer, dealer-distributor, or user.

(26)  “User” means a person who, as an ultimate consumer of an explosive, purchases the same from a dealer-distributor or manufacturer or means a dealer or manufacturer who uses an explosive as an ultimate consumer.

(27)  “Vessel” means any description of watercraft used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water.

Acts 1995, No. 1139, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1202, §1; Acts 2008, No. 898, §1; Acts 2009, No. 391, §1; Acts 2014, No. 151, §1.