Chapter 5 - FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION

FOOTNOTE(S):

--- (1) --- refcharter or refcross or refstatelaw Cross reference— Buildings and building regulations, Ch. 4; fire lanes, § 7-57; police department, Ch. 11; subdivisions, Ch. 14; trailers and trailer parks, Ch. 16.

refcharter or refcross or refstatelaw State Law reference— Fire safety, G.L. 1956, § 23-28.1-1 et seq.

Sec. 5-1. - Sale, storage of explosives.#

(a)

No person, unless on military duty of the United States or police or military duty of the state, shall keep, store, or possess or suffer or permit to be kept, stored or possessed more than five (5) pounds of gunpowder, giant powder, guncotton, dynamite, nitroglycerine, fireworks or fixed ammunition in any building or place in the town without a license from the town council, especially describing the place where the same shall be kept or stored.

(b)

No person shall sell or permit to be sold any explosives mentioned in (a) above without a license from the town council.

(c)

The fee for a license required by this section shall be five dollars ($5.00) and the privilege of storing or selling or both storing and selling any of the such explosives shall be included in one (1) and the same license. All licenses issued under this section shall expire on the thirty-first day of December of each year.

(d)

Any person violating this section shall be punished in accordance with section 1-4

Comment Text (parent not a footnote)(Ord. of 4-15-65, § 4)