[HISTORY: Adopted New Canaan Board of Selectmen 7-11-57;
effective 9-15-57.]
No person shall manufacture, receive, have or keep for sale,
use or any other purpose, or shall transport, within the limits of
the town, any quantity of gunpowder, explosive nitrocellulose or explosive
guncotton exceeding one pound in weight, or any quantity of dynamite,
nitroglycerin or other explosive substance or compounds exceeding
six ounces in weight, without having obtained a license so to do as
provided in this chapter.
The Board of Selectmen may license such persons as they may
deem proper to have, receive and keep for sale, at such place within
the town limits as may be designated by the Board of Selectmen, gunpowder
in quantity not exceeding at any one time 50 pounds.
The Board of Selectmen may license such persons as they may
deem proper to manufacture, transport, have, receive or keep for sale,
use, storage or any other purpose any quantity of explosive nitrocellulose,
explosive guncotton, dynamite, nitroglycerin or other explosive substances
or compounds. Such licenses may be granted under such conditions and
limitations as the Board of Selectmen may deem advisable to impose.
The Fire Marshal shall notify the Chief of the Fire Department
of all licenses granted under this chapter. The Chief of the Fire
Department shall cause to be placed and maintained in the Fire Department
building a complete list containing the names of all such licenses,
together with the places where explosives are to be kept under such
licenses.
The Fire Marshal may enter at all reasonable times into or upon
the premises of any person licensed under this chapter for the purpose
of ascertaining whether the requirements of this chapter, and the
regulation of the Board of Selectmen relating thereto, are strictly
complied with.
No person shall use for blasting any gunpowder, nitrocellulose,
guncotton, nitroglycerin, dynamite or other explosive substance within
the limits of the town without first having obtained a license in
writing from the Fire Marshal for such use. Such license shall contain
the name of the licensee and the date on which, or the dates between
which, the use for blasting is to occur, and shall be valid only on
or between such dates.
No person shall do any blasting within the limits of the town
under license from the Fire Marshal without complying with the following
regulations and any other regulations in relation thereto which the
Board of Selectmen may at any time adopt:
A.
No
dynamite of higher than 40% strength shall be used without special
permission from the Board of Selectmen.
B.
All
blasts must be covered when exploded by logs covering the entire blast,
and such logs shall be chained together, or a mat or matting material,
to be approved by the Fire Marshal, shall be used to cover the entire
blast when exploded.
C.
Special
care must be taken to prevent any material from flying.
D.
Not
more than one blast hole shall be exploded at one time unless the
explosion is induced by caps set off by electricity.
E.
Before
any blast is exploded, two or more persons, each provided with a red
flag to be used as a warning signal, shall be so stationed as to warn
any person who may be located within 300 feet of the location of the
blast, or who would be likely to approach within such distance of
the location of the blast, and the blast shall not be exploded until
each of such persons so stationed for warning purposes shall have
reported that there is no person within such distance from the location
of the blast.
F.
No
dynamite which has been frozen shall be used for blasting if it shall
have been thawed out by immersing it in warm water, or by heating
otherwise than in a water-jacketed kettle adequate for such use.
The Fire Marshal shall have authority to inspect any blasting
work being done within the limits of the town and to order any changes
in the methods of work or of safeguarding persons and property from
injury from such blasting as he shall deem necessary or expedient
for the protection of persons or property.[1]
