Thomas D. Davis, The Code of the City of Lynchburg 117 (1887)
Abstract
Section 19: Vehicles carrying explosives (gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite) must secure them in kegs, boxes, or canisters to prevent spilling or escaping.
Section 20: Limits vehicles carrying over 25 lbs (or one keg/case) of explosives to maximum stays of 2 hours within city limits and 30 minutes on public streets or sidewalks. Daytime transport from storage facilities to supply merchants or wholesalers is permitted as needed.
Law Text
19. No person shall carry gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite or other explosives on a vehicle in any part of the city unless the same shall be secured in kegs, boxes, or canisters, so that no part thereof can fall out or escape.
20. No person shall allow any vehicle under his charge or control, containing more than one keg or case of twenty-five pounds of gunpowder, blasting powder, dynamite or other high explosives, to remain within the city limits more than two hours, and no person shall permit more than the said quantity of any of the said articles to be upon any street or sidewalk more than thirty minutes; provided, however, that said articles may, during the day, be brought from magazines or depots in such quantities as may be required to supply the trade of merchants and wholesale dealers.
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Categories
GUNPOWDER - TRANSPORTATION