§ 456. Location of magazines. The quantity of explosives that may be stored in any explosives factory or magazine shall depend upon its distances from the nearest building, railroad or highway or other magazine. The distances that a quantity of explosives may be stored from the nearest magazine, building, railroad or highway, shall be as determined by the regulations promulgated pursuant to this article. All such distances may be reduced one-half when the magazine, building, railroad or highway to be protected is adequately screened from the explosives factory or magazine by an efficient barricade as defined in subdivision seven of section four hundred fifty-one of this article.

Terms Used In N.Y. Labor Law 456

  • Building: means any building regularly occupied in whole or in part as a habitation for human beings, and any church, school house, railway station or other building or place where people are accustomed to live, work or assemble, but does not mean or include any of the buildings of a manufacturing plant where the business of manufacturing explosives is carried on. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
  • Efficient barricade: means natural features of the ground, a dense woods, an artificial mound or a properly revetted wall of earth not less than three feet thick at the top, spaced at least three feet at the bottom from any explosives factory or magazine, the height of which is such that any straight line drawn from the top of any side wall of the explosives factory or magazine to the top of a building or to a point twelve feet above the center of a railroad or highway to be protected will pass through such intervening barricade. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
  • Explosives: means gunpowder, powders used for blasting, high explosives, blasting materials, detonating fuses, detonators, pyrotechnics and other detonating agents, fireworks and dangerous fireworks as defined in § 270. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
  • Explosives factory: means any building or other structure in which the manufacture of explosives or any part of the manufacture thereof is carried on. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
  • Highway: means any public street, public highway, public alley or navigable waterway, which is open for traffic. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
  • Magazine: means any building or other structure, other than an explosives factory, used to store explosives. See N.Y. Labor Law 451
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