2023 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.