1 The General Statutes of Connecticut: Revision of 1930, at 903 (1930)

Sec. 2643. Illegal possession. Any person, having in his possession any explosive for which he has not a bill of sale or who cannot produce legal evidence showing that he obtained such explosive by a legal sale, shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years or both for each offense Sec. 2644. Dealing in explosives; license. No person shall manufacture, store, sell or deal in gunpowder or any material or compound mentioned in section 2638, unless he shall first obtain from the commissioner of state police or from the fire marshal of the town where such business is conducted a written license therefor, which shall not be valid for more than one year, and for which he shall pay a fee of five dollars to the authority granting such license, which license shall specify the building where such business is to be carried on or such material deposited or used. Sec. 2645. Handling explosives; permit. No person shall procure, transport or use any compound mentioned in section 2638, without first obtaining a written permit therefor, signed by the commissioner of state police or by the fire marshal of the town where the same is kept for sale, specifying the name of the purchaser, the amount to be purchased and transported and the purpose for which it is to be used; the seller shall indorse thereon the fact of the sale, and po permit shall be good for more than one year. No carrier shall transport any such explosive compound unless such written permit shall accompany the same, and no person shall have in his possession any such compound unless he shall have a license or permit therefor. The fee for such permit shall be twenty-five cents. Sec. 2646. Transportation of explosives by common carrier. No person shall transport, carry or convey gasoline or any other inflammable and explosive substance, not in use to supply motive power, light or heat, on any vessel, car or vehicle operated in the transportation of passengers by a common carrier, which vessel, car or vehicle is carrying passengers for hire; provided such substances may be transported upon any vessel or steam railroad car if they are not carried in that part of such vessel or car which is being used for the transportation of passengers for hire, and that small arms ammunition in any quantity and such fuses, torpedoes, rockets or other signal devices as may be essential to promote safety in operation may be transported on any vessel, car or vehicle. Nothing in this section shall prevent the transportation of military or naval forces with their accompanying munitions of war on passenger-equipment vessels, cars or vehicles. No person shall bring into or place upon any such vessel, car or vehicle any gasoline or other inflammable and explosive substance except as herein provided. Any person or the officers of any corporation violating any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both. Sec. 2647. Regulations concerning transportation. The commissioner of state police and local fire marshals may make reasonable regulations for the safe transportation of explosives and may use their discretion in granting or refusing such licenses or permits, but shall not grant the same unless satisfied that a lawful use is intended. Sec. 2648. Manufacture of explosive compounds without license. Any person who shall manufacture, transport, use or have in his possession any compound more explosive than gunpowder, without a license or permit, shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years or both. Sec. 2649. Explosive compounds to be marked. Any person who shall knowingly have in his possession any package of nitro-glycerine, gunpowder, naphtha or other equally explosive material, not marked with a plain and legible label describing its contents, or who shall remove any such label or mark, or shall knowingly deliver to any carrier any such package, without such label, shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years. Sec. 2650. Gunpowder may be ordered removed. The fire marshal of any town may, by written order, direct the owner or person having charge of gunpowder within the limits of such town to remove the whole or any part of it at the time and to the place specified in such order; and, if he shall fail to do so, may cause it to be removed to any place in such town and shall have a lien upon it for all necessary expenses in removing and keeping it. Any person who shall refuse to remove any gunpowder in his charge, when legally requested by the fire marshal of the town in which the same is deposited or kept, or who shall not deposit and keep it at the place legally designated by him, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. Sec. 2651. Quantity of gunpowder that may be kept. Any person who shall keep more than fifty pounds of gunpowder in any one place, except at such place as may have been previously designated by the fire marshal for that purpose, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. Sec. 2652. Appeal from orders relating to gunpowder. If any person shall consider himself aggrieved by the doings of the fire marshal under the preceding sections relating to gunpowder and explosives, he may apply to the superior court, which may grant appropriate relief; but nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent the transportation of gunpowder, or its deposit for transportation during a period of not over forty-eight hours.