Magazine precautions

§ 455. Magazine precautions. 1. No individual shall unlock, open the doors of, or access the contents of, explosive magazines, except for the lawful storage or removal of explosives and in accordance with regulations of the commissioner. No employer shall allow any individual access to the explosive magazines or explosives of the employer unless a license has been issued to the individual by the commissioner as provided in this article, or the individual is under the direct supervision of the license holder.

No person shall have matches or fire of any kind in any magazine. No person shall store or keep blasting caps, detonating or fulminating caps, or detonators in a magazine in which any other type of explosive is stored or kept. No person shall open any package of explosives within fifty feet of any magazine, nor shall any explosives be kept in a magazine except in the original containers, or as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated under this article. No person shall discharge firearms within five hundred feet of a magazine or explosives factory, or at or against any such building or magazine. Any theft or loss of explosives from a storage magazine or otherwise, shall immediately be reported to the commissioner and the state or local police or county sheriff.