[Ord. No. 98-34 §1, 2-25-1998]
This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as "The Explosives
Code".
[Ord. No. 98-34 §1, 2-25-1998]
When used in this Chapter, the following words shall have the
following meanings as set out herein:
Any material or mixture consisting of a fuel and oxidizer
intended for blasting, not otherwise classified herein as an explosive,
in which none of the ingredients are classified as explosives provided
that the finished product, as mixed and packaged for use or shipment,
cannot be detonated by means of a No. 8 test blasting cap when unconfined.
A No. 8 test blasting cap is one (1) containing two (2) grams
of a mixture of eighty percent (80%) mercury fulminate and twenty
percent (20%) potassium chlorate or a cap of equivalent strength.
Unless otherwise specified shall mean that part of St. Charles
County outside of incorporated cities and towns and villages.
The Director of the Division of Building and Code Enforcement
of the Department of Community Development of St. Charles County,
Missouri, and shall include authorized agents of the County Division
of Building Code Enforcement of the Department of Community Development.
[Ord. No. 16-054 §11, 7-25-2016]
Gunpowder used for blasting, all forms of high explosives,
fuses, detonators and other detonating agents, smokeless powders,
and any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly used
or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion containing any
oxidizing and combustible units or other ingredients in such proportions,
quantities, or packing, that ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion,
by percussion, by detonation of, by any part of the compound or mixture
may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the
resultant gas pressures are capable of producing destructive effects
on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb; but explosives
shall not include small arms ammunition, gasoline, kerosene, or oils,
greases or other petroleum products intended for lubrication purposes.
For the purposes of this Chapter, explosives shall be classified as
Class A, high explosives and Class B, low explosives and said classifications
shall be as follows:
Class A, high explosives: Those explosives
possessing detonating qualities such as dynamite, nitroglycerin, picric
acid, lead azide, fulminate of mercury, smokeless powder, blasting
caps and detonating primers.
Class B, low explosives: Those explosives
not otherwise specified herein as Class A explosives, including, but
not limited to, explosives presenting a flammable hazard such as propellant.
Any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation, company,
association, joint stock association, and including any trustee, receiver,
assignee or personal representative thereof.
Any combustible or explosive composition or manufactured
articles designated and prepared for the purpose of producing audible
or visual effects which are commonly referred to as fireworks.
Words used in the singular number shall include the plural
and in the plural the singular.
The actual distance (in feet) to the nearest structure, divided
by the square root of the maximum explosive weight (in pounds) per
eight (8) millisecond (or greater) delay. If delay intervals less
than eight (8) milliseconds are employed or if instantaneous blasting
is employed, scaled distance shall be computed by dividing the actual
distance (in feet) by the square root of the total explosive weight
in pounds.
Any shotgun, rifle, pistol or revolver cartridge.
Any building not owned or controlled by the explosives user.
[Ord. No. 98-34 §1, 2-25-1998]
This Chapter shall apply to the manufacture, storage, sale,
transportation or use of explosives and blasting agents in the County.
It shall not apply to the discharge of fireworks or pyrotechnics and
small arms ammunition when discharged in connection with hunting or
target shooting or other lawful uses connected with firearms.
