NY Lab L § 451 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 16 - Explosives 451 - Definitions.

§  451.  Definitions.  Whenever  used in this article: 1. "Explosives"   means gunpowder, powders used for blasting,  high  explosives,  blasting   materials,   detonating   fuses,   detonators,  pyrotechnics  and  other   detonating agents, fireworks  and  dangerous  fireworks  as  defined  in   section  270.00  of  the  penal  law,  smokeless powder and any chemical   compound  or  any  mechanical  mixture  containing  any  oxidizing   and   combustible units, or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities,   or  packing  that  ignition by fire, friction, concussion, percussion or   detonation of any part thereof may cause and is  intended  to  cause  an   explosion,   but   shall   not   include  gasoline,  kerosene,  naphtha,   turpentine, benzine, acetone, ethyl ether, benzol or quantities of black   powder not exceeding five pounds for use in firing of  antique  firearms   or artifacts or replicas thereof. Fixed ammunition and primers for small   arms,  pyrotechnic  devices  which  are  designed for and being used for   legitimate wildlife management or controls,  safety  fuses  and  matches   shall  not  be  deemed to be explosives when, as provided by regulation,   the individual units contain any  of  the  above-mentioned  articles  or   substances  in  such limited quantity, of such nature and so packed that   it is impossible to produce an explosion of such units to the injury  of   life,  limb or property. The term "explosives" shall also include two or   more components that are advertised and sold together with  instructions   on  how  to  combine  the  components  to  create any device designed or   specially adapted to facilitate a detonation or combustion.2. "Highway" means any public street, public highway, public alley  or   navigable waterway, which is open for traffic. Navigable waterways shall   be considered as only those susceptible of being used, in their ordinary   condition, as highways of commerce.3.  "Railroad" or "railway" means any railroad that carries passengers   or freight for hire, but shall not include auxiliary tracks,  spurs  and   sidings  installed  and  primarily  used  in serving any mine, quarry or   plant.4. "Building" means any building regularly occupied  in  whole  or  in   part  as  a  habitation  for human beings, and any church, school house,   railway station or other building or place where people  are  accustomed   to  live,  work  or  assemble,  but  does not mean or include any of the   buildings of a manufacturing plant where the business  of  manufacturing   explosives is carried on.5. "Explosives factory" means any building or other structure in which   the  manufacture of explosives or any part of the manufacture thereof is   carried on.6. "Magazine" means any building or other  structure,  other  than  an   explosives factory, used to store explosives.7. "Efficient barricade" means natural features of the ground, a dense   woods, an artificial mound or a properly revetted wall of earth not less   than  three  feet  thick  at  the top, spaced at least three feet at the   bottom from any explosives factory or magazine, the height of  which  is   such  that  any straight line drawn from the top of any side wall of the   explosives factory or magazine to the top of a building or  to  a  point   twelve  feet  above  the center of a railroad or highway to be protected   will pass through such intervening barricade.8. "Person" includes any natural person, partnership,  association  or   corporation.9.  "Manufacturer"  means any person who is engaged in the manufacture   or production of explosives.10. "Dealer" means any person engaged in the business  of  buying  and   selling explosives. 11.  "Pyrotechnics" means any combustible or explosive compositions of   manufactured articles designed and prepared for the purpose of producing   audible or visible effects that are commonly referred to as fireworks.