§ 30-110. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this Article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Black powder means a deflagrating or low explosive compound of an intimate mixture of sulfur, charcoal and an alkali nitrate, usually potassium or sodium nitrate.

Blasting agent means any material or mixture consisting of a fuel and oxidizer intended for blasting, not otherwise defined as an explosive; provided that the finished product, as mixed and packaged for use or shipment, cannot be detonated by means of a No. 8 blasting cap, as defined by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, U.S. Department of Treasury, when unconfined.

Booster means any unit of explosive or blasting agent used for the purpose of perpetuating or intensifying an initial detonation.

Building means and includes any building regularly occupied, in whole or in part, as a habitation for human beings, and any church, schoolhouse, railway station or other building where people are accustomed to assemble, but does not mean or include any buildings of a mine or quarry or any of the buildings of a manufacturing plant in which the business of manufacturing explosive materials is conducted.

Detonator means any device containing any initiating or primary explosive that is used for initiating detonation. A detonator may not contain more than ten grams of total explosives by weight, excluding ignition or delay charges.

Explosive means any chemical compound, mixture or device, the primary or common purpose of which is to function by explosion and includes high or low explosives. Manufactured articles, including, but not limited to, fixed ammunition for small arms, fire crackers, safety fuses, and matches are not explosives when the individual units contain explosives in such limited quantity and of such nature or in such packing that it is impossible to produce a simultaneous or a destructive explosion of such units which would be injurious to life, limb or property.

Explosive materials include, but are not limited to, explosives, blasting agents, detonators, primers, boosters and black powder.

Primer means a unit, package, or cartridge of explosives used to initiate other explosives or blasting agents, and which contains a detonator.

(Ord. No. 1519, § 1, 4-12-2007)