New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter XX - Niagara Falls Bridge Commission › Part 950 - Rules And Regulations › Section 950.6 - Rules pertaining to Niagara Falls Bridge Commission regulations governing transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles in or upon facilities operated by the commission

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) These
				regulations apply to the vehicular crossings under the jurisdiction of the
				commission.
(b) Any vehicle, the
				load of which includes, or is believed by a bridge employee to include, any
				dangerous article, and the load of any such vehicle, shall be subject to
				inspection to determine whether any such vehicle would be in violation of these
				rules and regulations.
(c) No
				vehicles loaded with any dangerous articles shall enter in or upon the
				vehicular crossing unless the driver shall first, on demand made by a bridge
				employee exhibit a bill of lading or other shipping paper describing such
				article by the specific name therefore used in the "List of Explosives and
				Other Dangerous Articles" contained in the Interstate Commerce Commission
				regulations.
(d) Wherever reference
				is made herein to "Interstate Commerce Commission regulations," it shall refer
				to the regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission which are included in
				Title 18 of the United States Code entitled Crimes and Criminal Procedures, as
				revised, codified and enacted into positive law, and may be cited as
				Title 18, United States
				Code, chapter 39, sections 831 and
				837 inclusive as applicable to and
				dealing with the transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles by
				motor vehicles on the highway. Reference is also made to Title 49 of the Code
				of Federal Regulations, Parts 71 to 79 inclusive.
(e) No vehicle shall enter the vehicular
				crossing if its load includes any weapon of war employing atomic fission or
				radioactive force, or any component part of such weapon containing a
				fissionable material, or any forbidden explosives as defined by Interstate
				Commerce Commission regulations.
(f) No vehicle shall enter the vehicular
				crossing if its load includes:
(1) any Class
				A or B explosives (other than special fireworks--including railway or track
				torpedoes--not in excess of 10 pounds gross weight per vehicle) as defined by
				Interstate Commerce Commission regulations; or
(2) any radioactive material including, but
				not limited to, radioisotopes, nuclear fissionable material, reactor fuel rods,
				irradiated fuel rods, and radioactive ores, residues, and wastes, except under
				the following conditions:
(i) written
				permission must be obtained from the commission at least two days before
				intended travel over the vehicular crossing;
(ii) if permission to use the vehicular
				crossing is granted by the commission, passage may be made only on the specific
				day and within such hours as are stipulated by the commission. Vehicles and
				their loads requiring special handling will be subject to any and all costs, in
				addition to the regular tolls, for such special handling. Provided, however,
				common, contract and private carriers transporting radioisotopes used for
				medical, industrial, agricultural, or research purposes; natural uranium metal,
				depleted uranium, magnesium-thorium alloys in formed shapes (not powered, and
				which shall contain not more than four percent nominal thorium 232); radium or
				radon sealed in needles, capsules or similar platinum-invidium or gold
				container used for medical purposes; manufactured articles other than liquids,
				containing radioactive material as component parts, namely, clock and
				instrument dials, electronic tubes, test instruments, X-ray machines; packaged,
				marked, labeled and limited as required by the Interstate Commerce Commission
				regulations in a properly placarded vehicle, may use the vehicular crossing
				without prior notice or time restriction;
(iii) vehicles transporting Class A or B
				explosives or radioactive materials; their contents and shipping documents
				shall be subject to inspection by a bridge employee prior to proceeding over
				the vehicular crossing;
(iv)
				operators of vehicles transporting Class A or B explosives, or radioactive
				materials must comply with all orders, instructions and directives of a bridge
				employee; and
(v) vehicles
				transporting Class A or B explosives, or radioactive materials, whether halted
				or in motion, must remain at least 300 feet from any vehicle traveling in the
				same direction while crossing the bridges.