(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, EXPLOSIVE or EXPLOSIVES shall mean any chemical compound or any mechanical mixture containing any oxidizing and combustible units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing that an ignition by fire, friction, concussion, percussion or detonator of any part of the compound or mixture may cause sudden generation of highly heated gases, that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects upon life, limb or contiguous objects, but does not mean gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, turpentine, benzine, butane, propane colloided nitrocellulose in sheets or rods or grains not under one-eighth of an inch in diameter, wet nitrocellulose and wet nitro starch containing 20% or more moisture. Manufactured articles such as fixed ammunition for small arms, fire crackers, safety fuse, matches, and the like, shall not be held to be explosive when the individual units contain explosives in such limited quantity, of such nature or in such packing that it is impossible to produce a simultaneous or a destructive explosion of such units, to the injury of life, limb or property.
(B) No person shall keep or store any explosives in any house, store or warehouse or other place within the corporate limits of said village. This section shall not be deemed applicable to retailers of either dynamite or gunpowder.
(C) No retailer of dynamite or gunpowder shall keep or store any quantity thereof greater than 50 pounds weight in any storehouse, shop or other place within the corporate limits of said village, except in fireproof magazines constructed of material and design to be approved of by resolution of the Village Board of Trustees. Said quantity of 50 pounds weight shall be kept confined in said fireproof magazines in closed tin or copper canisters, and no such retailer of dynamite or gunpowder shall be permitted to sell, retail or give away the same in said village after dusk in the evening.
(D) It shall be the duty of the president of the Board of Trustees, when complaint is made to him by any village officer, or upon the affidavit of any citizen stating that there is probably cause to suspect any person of keeping or concealing any dynamite, gunpowder or other explosive contrary to the provisions of divisions (B) and (C) of this section, to take with him any police officer or constable of this village, and search and examine any place within the said corporate limits of said village to ascertain the truth of such allegations or suspicion, and if it be found, on examination of any premises as aforesaid, that dynamite or gunpowder is therein stored or concealed contrary to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the offender shall be forthwith prosecuted for a violation thereof, and upon refusal of such offender to comply with the provisions of this section within 24 hours after a written request so to do.
(E) No person, firm or corporation shall allow to be stored in any freight depot in the village, any explosives overnight in any quantity.
(Ord. 862, passed 4-15-74) Penalty, see § 132.99