N.Y. Labor Law 455 – Magazine precautions
§ 455. Magazine precautions. 1. No individual shall unlock, open the doors of, or access the contents of, explosive magazines, except for the lawful storage or removal of explosives and in accordance with regulations of the commissioner. No employer shall allow any individual access to the explosive magazines or explosives of the employer unless a license has been issued to the individual by the commissioner as provided in this article, or the individual is under the direct supervision of the license holder.
Terms Used In N.Y. Labor Law 455
- Building: means any building regularly occupied in whole or in part as a habitation for human beings, and any church, school house, railway station or other building or place where people are accustomed to live, work or assemble, but does not mean or include any of the buildings of a manufacturing plant where the business of manufacturing explosives is carried on. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
- Explosives: means gunpowder, powders used for blasting, high explosives, blasting materials, detonating fuses, detonators, pyrotechnics and other detonating agents, fireworks and dangerous fireworks as defined in § 270. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
- Explosives factory: means any building or other structure in which the manufacture of explosives or any part of the manufacture thereof is carried on. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
- Magazine: means any building or other structure, other than an explosives factory, used to store explosives. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
- Person: includes any natural person, partnership, association or corporation. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
No person shall have matches or fire of any kind in any magazine. No person shall store or keep blasting caps, detonating or fulminating caps, or detonators in a magazine in which any other type of explosive is stored or kept. No person shall open any package of explosives within fifty feet of any magazine, nor shall any explosives be kept in a magazine except in the original containers, or as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated under this article. No person shall discharge firearms within five hundred feet of a magazine or explosives factory, or at or against any such building or magazine. Any theft or loss of explosives from a storage magazine or otherwise, shall immediately be reported to the commissioner and the state or local police or county sheriff.