1887 Terr. of Mont. Laws 68

1887 Terr. of Mont. Laws 68

Abstract

Extraordinary Session, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled An Act Concerning the Storage of Gunpowder, § 2: No person, company, or corporation shall store, deposit or keep within the limits of any city, town or village, gunpowder, nitroglycerine, guncotton, dynamite, and other dangerous or powerful explosives exceeding fifty pounds, and no magazine or storehouse where such explosives are stored or kept, shall hereafter be located nearer than one-half mile from such city, town or village

Summary

The law regulated the storage of gunpowder and other explosives by limiting quantities kept within towns, requiring secure storage facilities and minimum distances from populated areas. Violations of these safety requirements were classified as misdemeanors punishable by fines up to $100.

Law Text

Section 1. That section two of an act entitled an act concerning the storage of gunpowder be amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: Sec. 2. No person, company, or corporation shall store, deposit or keep within the limits of any city, town or village, gunpowder, nitro glycerine, guncotton, dynamite and other dangerous or powerful explosives exceeding fifty pounds, and no magazine or storehouse where such explosives are stored or kept, shall hereafter be located nearer than one-half mile from such city, town or village; Provided, This act shall not be construed to prevent the keeping of a reasonable supply of powder in any safe place at a mine. Sec. 3. That all magazines and storehouses for the storage of powder and other combustibles in quantities, if of wood, shall have walls of not less than ten inches in thickness, and if of brick, twelve inches, or of stone, of not less than twenty inches in thickness without openings therein except necessary ventilations and one door not to exceed thirty inches in width. Said door shall be double, one opening outward and the other inward. The outer door shall be of plank not less than two inches in thickness, to be covered on the outside with one-eighth inch iron. Both of said doors shall be kept securely locked at all times, when powder is stored therein, except when it is necessary to store therein or remove therefrom such powder or other explosives. Such building shall be well and securely roofed and from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to store gunpowder or any other of the explosives herein named, in amounts exceeding fifty pounds, elsewhere than in such a storehouse or magazine or underground at a mine. Sec. 4. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. Sec. 5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.