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Show AN ORDINANCE. AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE keeping and storing of explosives within the limits of Salt Lake county, and outside out-side thc limits of incorporated cities and towns therein. The Board of County Commissioners of the county of Suit Lako ordains as follows; fol-lows; Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to erect or maintain In Salt Lako county uny magazine for thc storago of explosives, within three hundred feet of any road, highway, railway used ftr passenger pas-senger traffic, or building where people llvo or gather, or to construct such magazine mag-azine of other than fireproof material, 6Uch as brick, adobe, rock. Iron, steel, or by excavation Into the side of a hill or mountain; or to fall to provldo such magazine mag-azine with doublo doors and shutters over any openings, such doors or shutters to be of non-combustlblo material. Section 2. It shall bo unlawful for any person to keep or store In any enclosure, building, car, mine, or plac& of business, In Salt Lako county, any gunpowder, giant or hercules powder, nllro-glyccrlne, dynamite, atlas, venture, or other high explosive, except In a magazine as described de-scribed In section 1 of this ordinance; Provided, that a samnlo of gunpowder, giant or hercules powder, not to exceed ten pounds, may be kept In any licensed are sold, and tho amount so kept shall bo stored in canisters or original packages and placed in a vault of construction approved ap-proved by the Sheriff of Salt Lako county, coun-ty, and located at an accessible point not nearer than ten feet to any other building, build-ing, and provided, further, that any person per-son may keep, In a canister or flask, for his own uso. not to exceed six and one-quarter one-quarter pounds of gunpowder; and It shall be unlawful to sell or wolgn gunpowder, giant or hercules powder, or other high explosive, by gas, lamp, candle or flro light, unless In eealed cans or canisters. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any peiEon to keep or store giant or horculos powder capo, or capa used to explodo giant or r,Grc;;!c2 :-wdr. unless they bo In cases, separate from any kind of cx-ploslvo cx-ploslvo powdor; If kept In a powder magazine, maga-zine, they shall be kept a soparato vault or safe; If kept nt a place of business, busi-ness, they shall be In a vault or safe separate sep-arate and removed from all other explosives, explo-sives, as provided In section 2 of thla ordinance or-dinance for tho storage of samples of explosives. Section I. It shall bo unlawful for any person to manuiacture any combustible or oxploslvo acids or othor chemicals or boll or rcflno oils, or maintain, erect, or cause to be erected any works for tho manufacture of combustible or explosive acids or other chemicals, or for tho boiling boil-ing or refining of oils, within forty rods of any dwelling-house or jilaco of business. busi-ness. Section G. The Board of County Commissioners Com-missioners may at airy time order tho removal re-moval of any magazine for the keeping or storing of explosive, and It shall bo unlawful un-lawful for any person having control of any such magazine to refuse, for a period pe-riod of thirty days, to comply with any such ordor of removal. Section 6. Tho word porson as used In this ordinance shall bo construed as including in-cluding persons, tlrms, partnerships, corporations cor-porations and associations. Section 7. Any person violating any of tho provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, Section S. This ordinance shall bo In effect from nnd after May 16, 1901, this date being not less than fifteen days aftor its passage. Passed by thc Board of Commissioners of tho county of Salt Lako on tho 25th day of April, A. D. 1901. . Names of members voting for tho aforesaid afore-said ordinance; James H. Anderson, William W. Wilson, Henry N. Standloh; names of members voting against said ordinance, none. (Seal.) JAMES II ANDERSON. Cnalrman Board of County Commissioners. Commission-ers. Salt Lako County. Attest. John James. County Clerk. |
