Sec. 331. Gunpowder and other explosives.
(a) No person shall keep within the city more than ten pounds
of gunpowder or other explosive compound, except for purposes
of sale.
(b) Licensed retail dealers may, to supply their trade, keep any
quantity of gunpowder or blasting powder not exceeding fifty
pounds in all; provided such powder be kept in metal packages,
with good, closely-fitting and well-secured covers thereon. No
such retail or wholesale dealer shall keep in his store more than
40,000 loaded gun shells.
(c) Wholesale dealers may store within the city limits, in
suitably-constructed magazines, which shall be hereafter erected
only under special permission of the Council, such quantities of
powder, dynamite or other explosives as they may deem necessary.
Said wholesale dealers may also, for the purpose of their
trade, have in their possession elsewhere than in a magazine, between
the hours of 7 a. m. and 5 p. m., any quantity not exceeding
fifty pounds. But no dynamite or nitro-glycerine in any of its
forms shall be stored or kept for sale in any store within the
corporate limits.
(d) Every dealer in gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite
or other high explosives shall place on the building containing the
same, over or at the side of the front door thereof, a sign with
the words "Powder for sale" printed or painted thereon in legible
characters, at least three inches in height; he shall store said
powder or other explosives, including explosive cartridges, within
fifteen feet of the front entrance to the building and shall notify
the Chief of the Fire Department in writing that the same has
been done. The Chief of the Fire Department is hereby authorized
to enter any building-in which powder or other explosives
may be habitually kept for sale and familiarize himself with the
location of such explosives, to the end that he may be able to take
the necessary steps to prevent disaster therefrom in case of a
fire.
(e) No person shall carry gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite
or other explosives on any vehicle in any part of the city
unless the same shall be secured in kegs, boxes or canisters, so
that no part thereof can fall out or escape.
(f) No person shall allow any vehicle under his charge or control,
containing more than one keg or case of twenty-five pounds
of gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite or other high explosives
to remain within the city limits more than two hours; and no person
shall permit more than the said quantity of any kind of the
said article to be upon any street or sidewalk more than thirty
minutes; provided, however, that said articles may, during the
day, be brought from magazines or depots in such quantities as
may be required to supply the trade of merchants and wholesale
dealers.
Penalty: Any person who shall violate any of the clauses of
the foregoing section in regard to gunpowder or other explosives,
or permit the same to be violated with his consent by any person
in his employment or under his control, shall, upon conviction,
be fined not less than $5 nor more than $50, for each offense.
