1913 N.H. Laws 639
| dc.coverage.spatial | New Hampshire | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T03:35:14Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:07:41Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:15:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1913 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An Act to Regulate the Transportation of Dynamite, Gunpowder and Explosives, ch. 128, § 1: It shall be unlawful to transport, carry, or convey from one place in this state to another place in this state, any dynamite, gunpowder, or other explosive on any vessel or vehicle of any description operated by a common carrier, which vessel or vehicle is carrying passengers for hire | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Section 1. It shall be unlawful to transport, carry, or convey, from one place in this state to another place in this state, any dynamite, gunpowder, or other explosive on any vessel or vehicle of any description operated by a common carrier, which vessel or vehicle is carrying passengers for hire: Provided, that it shall be lawful to transport on any such vessel or vehicle small arms ammunition in any quantity, and such fuses, torpedoes, rockets, or other signal devices, as may be essential to promote safety in operation; and properly packed and marked samples of explosives for laboratory examination, not exceeding a net weight of one-half pound each, and not exceeding twenty samples at one time in a single vessel or vehicle; but such samples shall not be carried in that part of a vessel or vehicle which is intended for transportation of passengers for hire: Provided further, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the transportation of military or naval forces with their accompanying munitions of war on passenger equipment vessels or vehicles. Sect. 2. The public service commission shall formulate regulations for the safe transportation of explosives, which shall be binding upon all common carriers engaged in intrastate commerce which transport explosives by land. Said commission, of its own motion, or upon application made by any interested party, may make changes or modifications in such regulations, made desirable by new information or altered conditions. Such regulations shall be in accord with the best known practicable means for securing safety in transit, covering the packing, marking, loading, handling while in transit, and the precautions necessary to determine whether the material when offered is in proper condition to transport. Such regulations, as well as all changes or modifications thereof, shall take effect ninety days after their formulation and publication by said commission and shall be in effect until reversed, set aside, or modified. Sect. 3. It shall be unlawful to transport, carry, or convey, from one place in this state to another place in this state, liquid nitroglycerine, fulminate in bulk in dry condition, or other like explosive, on any vessel or vehicle of any description operated by a common carrier in the transportation of passengers or articles of commerce by land or water. Sect. 4. Every package containing explosives or other dangerous articles when presented to a common carrier for shipment shall have plainly marked on the outside thereof the contents thereof; and it shall be unlawful for any person to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to any common carrier any explosive, or other dangerous article, under any false or deceptive marking, description, invoice, shipping order, or without informing the agent of such carrier of the true character thereof, at or before the time such delivery or carriage is made. Whoever shall knowingly violate, or cause to be violated, any provision of this act, or any regulation made by the public service commission in pursuance thereof, shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than eighteen months or both. Sect. 5. When the death or bodily injury of any person is caused by the explosion of any article named in this act, while the same is being placed upon any vessel or vehicle to be transported in violation hereof, or while the same is being so transported, or while the same is being removed from such vessel or vehicle, the person knowingly placing, or aiding or permitting the placing, of such articles upon any such vessel or vehicle, to be so transported, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years. Sect. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect on the first day of June, 1913. | |
| dc.description.summary | This act regulates the transportation of explosives by common carriers, prohibiting most explosives on passenger vehicles, requiring safety regulations, and imposing criminal penalties for unsafe transport or mislabeling. It also makes causing death or injury through the unlawful transport of explosives punishable by up to ten years' imprisonment. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4570 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Laws_of_the_State_of_New_Hampshire/TZ5GAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=New+Hampshire+statute&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | GUNPOWDER - TRANSPORTATION | |
| dc.title | 1913 N.H. Laws 639 |