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USA Statutes : new_jersey
Title : TITLE 21 EXPLOSIVES AND FIREWORKS
Chapter : 21:1A-129.
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21:1A-129. Definitions
As used in this act unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) ~Act~ means this act and rules and regulations promulgated hereunder.
(b) ~Commissioner~ means the Commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry or his authorized representative.
(c) ~Barricaded~ means that a building containing explosives is effectively screened from a magazine, inhabited building, railway or highway, either by a natural barricade or by an artificial barricade of such height that a straight line from the top of any sidewall of a building containing explosives to the eave line of any magazine or inhabited building or to a point 12 feet above the center of a railway or highway, will pass through such intervening natural or artificial barricade.
(d) ~Artificial barricade~ means an artificial mound or properly revetted wall of earth of a minimum thickness of 3 feet.
(e) ~Natural barricade~ means natural features of the ground including but not limited to hills, or timber of sufficient density so that the surrounding exposures which require protection cannot be seen from the magazine containing explosives when the trees are bare of leaves.
(f) ~Explosives~ means any chemical compound or mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion, that contains any oxidizing and combustible materials or other ingredients, in such proportions, quantities or packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion or by detonation of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on contiguous objects. The term ~explosives~ shall include, but is not limited to commercial explosives, propellants and nitro-carbo-nitrates. The term ~explosives~ , except as specifically stated in this act, shall not include small arms ammunition, explosives in the forms prescribed by the official United States Pharmacopoeia, or fireworks regulated under Revised Statutes sections 21:2-1 through 21:2-7.
(g) ~Commercial explosives~ means all explosives except propellants and nitro-carbo-nitrates, including, but not limited to, dynamite, black blasting powder, pellet powder, initiating explosives, blasting caps, electric blasting caps, safety fuses, fuse igniters fuse lighters, squibs, cordeau detonant fuses, instantaneous fuses, igniter cord and igniters.
(h) ~Propellants~ means solid chemicals or solid chemical mixtures which function by rapid combustion of successive layers and include, but are not limited to, smokeless powder for small arms, smokeless powder for cannon, smokeless powder or solid propellants for rockets, jet thrust units, or other devices.
(i) ~Nitro-carbo-nitrate~ means a mixture intended for blasting consisting substantially of inorganic nitrates and carbonaceous combustibles in which none of the ingredients is a commercial explosive and the finished product, as mixed and packaged for use or shipment, cannot be detonated by the test procedure established by rules and regulations promulgated under this act.
(j) ~Explosives manufacturing establishment~ means all lands, and buildings situated thereon, used in connection with the manufacture of explosives.
(k) ~Explosives manufacturing building~ means any building or other structure, except magazines, in which the manufacture of explosives is carried on.
(l) ~Magazine~ means any building or structure used for the storage of explosives but shall not mean an explosives manufacturing building.
(m) ~Inhabited building~ means a building regularly occupied in whole or in part as a habitation for human beings, or any church, schoolhouse, railroad station, store or other structure where people are accustomed to assemble, except any building or structure occupied in connection with the manufacture, transportation, storage or use of explosives.
(n) ~Highway~ means any public street, road, highway, alley or those parts of navigable streams which are used as highways of commerce.
(o) ~Public conveyance~ means any transportation facility which is carrying passengers for hire.
(p) ~Person~ means any natural person, partnership, firm, association or corporation.
(q) ~Railway~ shall mean and include any steam, electric or other railroad or railway which carries passengers for hire on the particular line or branch in the vicinity where explosives storage magazines or explosives manufacturing buildings are situated, but shall not include auxiliary tracks, spurs and sidings installed and primarily used for transporting freight.
L.1960, c. 55, p. 468, s. 2.
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