§ 66. Inflammable or explosive articles prohibited. 1. No loose hay, loose cotton, or loose hemp, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naptha, benzine, benzol, coal-oil, crude petroleum or other like explosive burning fluids or dangerous articles, shall be carried as freight or used as stores on any public vessel carrying passengers licensed under this chapter, except that refined petroleum which will not ignite at a temperature of less than one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit may be carried on the main deck of any public vessel, provided the barrels or cases containing such oil are fully covered with a tarpaulin. But nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any vessel utilizing petroleum, petroleum products or other mineral oils as a source of motive power, from carrying for its own use, in reasonable quantities, petroleum, petroleum products and oils in metal tanks, properly protected, vented and located, such tanks, their piping, equipment and manner of installation to be subject to the approval of the inspector, and such approval when given shall be indorsed on the certificate of inspection issued to such vessel, nor shall the provisions of this section prohibit the transportation by vessels of gasoline or other petroleum products when carried in the tanks of motor vehicles using gasoline or petroleum products as a source of motive power, provided that all fire in such vehicles shall be extinguished and their engines and motors stopped immediately after boarding such vessels, and no fire shall be lighted nor the engine or motor of such vehicle shall be started until immediately before such vehicle shall leave the vessel.

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2. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any marina providing facilities for sale of fuel to vessels, to maintain fuel pumps on the premises unless equipped as may be necessary for the arresting of static electricity. All motors and generators on the vessel being refueled shall be turned off during the refueling process.

A violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a violation punishable as set forth in section seventy-three-c of this article.