8-2-1: SCOPE 1 :
   A.   This chapter shall apply to the manufacture, keeping, having, storage, sale, transportation and use of explosives and blasting agents.
   B.   It shall not apply to the following:
      1.   Transportation of explosives or blasting agents when under the jurisdiction of and in compliance with the regulations of the federal department of transportation.
      2.   Shipment, transportation and handling of military explosives by the armed forces of the United States and the state militia.
      3.   Transportation and use of explosives or blasting agents in the normal and emergency operation of federal agencies or operation of federal agencies or state or municipal fire and police departments, providing performance of their duties, they are acting in their official capacities and in the proper performance of their duties.
      4.   Sale and use (public display) of pyrotechnics and commonly known as fireworks 2 .
   C.   This chapter shall not apply to the following commodities and items:
      1.   Stocks of small arms ammunition; propellant actuated power cartridges; small arms ammunition primers in quantities of less than one million (1,000,000), smokeless propellant in quantities of less than seven hundred fifty (750) pounds.
      2.   Explosive actuated power devices when in quantities of less than fifty (50) pounds net weight of explosives.
      3.   Fuse lighters and fuse igniters.
      4.   Safety fuse (safety fuse does not include cordeau detonant fuse), and 3/32 inch cannon fuses or matchlock fuses (slow match).
      5.   The sale or transfer of black powder or other commonly used nonsmokeless propellant in individual transactions involving quantities of five (5) pounds or less when used for muzzle loaded sports equipment or used in the hand loading of sports equipment. (Ord. 47, sec. 1, 1970)

 

Notes

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1. MSA 412.221, subdivisions 17 and 32; 299F.73.
2
2. MSA 624.20; see also title 3, chapter 20 of this code.