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Every person engaged in, as principal, or connected with, any activity involving explosives or blasting operations, shall make an application to the fire commissioner for a permit to keep and use explosives, giving at the time, in writing, the name of the licensee, location of the office or place of business, occupation, proposed location of the magazine, together with plans and descriptions of the construction of such magazine, the quantity and kind of explosives proposed to be kept therein, and the names of the employees required to have certificates of fitness.
If the proposed location of the magazine shall be satisfactory to the fire commissioner, the fire commissioner shall approve such application and transmit the same with his approval thereon to the city clerk, who shall, upon payment by such applicant to the comptroller of a permit fee of $5.00, issue to such applicant a permit to locate the magazine at the location given in such application.
It shall be unlawful for any licensee to move or cause to be moved any magazine, after having received a permit for the use of same, until such licensee shall make a new application to the fire commissioner for permission so to do and shall have secured a permit for such purpose, and every application for such permit shall specify the place at which it is desired to locate the magazine proposed to be moved.
The fire commissioner shall recommend the revocation of any permit issued to blast rock or any other substance for noncompliance with any of the provisions of this section.
(Prior code § 90-38; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. I, § 11; Amend Coun. J. 5-18-16, p. 24131, § 74)