Code of Vermont Rules › Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY › Sub-Agency 040 - EXPLOSIVE LICENSING DIVISION › Chapter 001 - EXPLOSIVES AND FIREWORKS › Section 28 040 001 - EXPLOSIVES AND FIREWORKS

Current through June, 2024
DEFINITIONS
Section 1
				Appeals
For the purpose of these rules and regulations, the following
				  terms shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them:
(a) "Detonators" -- any device for the
				purpose of initiating an explosive charge; and shall include blasting caps,
				blasting caps with safety fuse, and electric blasting caps.
(b) "Primers," "Percussion fuses,"
				"Combination fuses," and "Timefuses" -- devices used to ignite powder charges
				of ammunition or the bursting charges of projectiles.
(c) "Blank cartridges" -- any cartridge or
				shell for use in a pistol, rifle or shotgun, not loaded with ball, shot or
				bullet.
(d) "Explosive bombs" --
				metal containers filled with explosives and provided with a detonating
				device.
(e) "Detonating fuse" -- a
				fuse containing high explosives of sufficient strength to detonate other high
				explosives by contact by lying alongside for the purpose of exploding the
				entire charge almost instantaneously through its whole length.
(f) "Boosters" -- a casing containing several
				ounces of a high explosive used to increase the intensity of explosion of the
				detonator of a detonating fuse.
(g)
				"Fuse lighters" and "Fuse igniters" -- special devices designed for the purpose
				of igniting safety fuse.
(h)
				"Blasting cap" -- means a thin metal shell closed at one end and containing a
				detonating charge that is ignited by the flame from safety fuse. It is used for
				detonating explosives.
(i)
				"Electric blasting cap" -- means a thin metal shell closed at both ends
				containing a detonating charge designed to be ignited by an electric current
				passed through the two insulated let wires that project through the seal of the
				shell.
(j) "Delay electric blasting
				cap" -- means an electric blasting cap with a delay timing element interposed
				between the ignition element and the detonating charge.
(k) "Electric squib" -- means a small tube
				containing an ignition charge and an electrical ignition element used to fire
				black powder charges.
(l) "Tracer
				fuse" -- devices attached to projectiles and containing a slow-burning
				composition.
(m) "Explosives" --
				means any chemical compound, mixture or device, the primary or common purpose
				of which is to function by explosion, i.e., with substantially instantaneous
				release of gas and heat, unless such compound, mixture or device is otherwise
				specifically classified by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
(n) "Exploives manufacturing building" --
				means any building or other structure (except magazines) in which the
				manufacture of explosives, or any processing involving explosives is carried
				on, and any building where explosives are used as a component part or
				ingredient in the manufacture of any article or device.
(o) "Magazine" -- means any building or
				structure used for the permanent storage of explosives.
(p) "Inhabited building" -- means a building
				regularly occupied in whole or in part as a habitation for human beings, or by
				any church, schoolhouse, railway station, store, or other structure where
				people are accustomed to assemble, except any building or structure occupied in
				connection with the manufacture, transportation, storage or use of
				explosives.
(q) "Railway" -- means
				any steam, electric, or other railroad or railway which carries passengers for
				hire.
(r)"Highway" -- means any
				public street or public road.
(s)
				"Barricaded" -- means that a building containing explosives is effectually
				screened from a magazine, inhabited buildings, railway, or highway, either by a
				natural barricade, or by an artificial barricade, of such height that a
				straight line from the top of any side wall of the building containing
				explosives to the eave line of any magazine, or inhabited building, or to a
				point twelve feet above the center of a railway or highway, will pass through
				such intervening natural or artificial barricade.
(t) "Natural barricade" -- means natural
				features of the ground, such as hills, or timber of sufficient density that the
				surrounding exposures which require protection cannot be seen from the magazine
				when the trees are bare of leaves.
(u) "Artificial barricade" -- means an
				artificial mound or revetted wall of earth of a minimum thickness of three
				feet.
(v) "Person" -- means any
				natural person, partnership, firm, association, or corporation.
(w) "Marshal" -- the State Fire Marshal or
				his authorized representative.
(x)
				"Approved" -- approved by the Marshal.
Words used in the singular number shall include the pural
				  [plural], and the plural the singular.