" /> Storage | Duke Center for Firearms Law - Part 2
Duke Center for Firearms Law
Duke Law logo
Repository of Historical Gun Laws

Subject: Storage

  • Subjects

  • Year Law was Published

  • Jurisdictions

1919 Wyo. Sess. Laws 17, An Act . . . Relating to the Storage of Explosives, ch. 17, § 1.

| | 1919

. . . It shall be unlawful for any person or company to store any gunpowder or any other explosive material at a less distance than one thousand feet from any house or habitation, when more than fifty pounds are at the same place; but it shall be unlaw...

Read More

1919 Pa. Laws 710, An Act relating to fires and fire prevention. . .

| | 1919

The department may adopt and enforce rules and regulations governing the having, using, storage, sale and keeping of gasoline, naptha, kerosene, or other substance of like character, blasting powder, gun powder, dynamite, or any other inflammable or co...

Read More

1915 Kan. Sess. Laws 347, An Act providing for Public Safety by Regulating the Storage Handling and Disposition of Dynamite, Giant Powder, Nitro-glycerine, Gun Cotton and Other Detonating Explosives, Providing Penalties for Violation of this Act and Repealing all Acts in Conflict Herewith, § 1.

| | 1915

Any person, firm or corporation, in this state, who shall sell, give away or otherwise dispose of, any dynamite, giant powder, nitro-glycerine, gun cotton or other detonating explosive, shall keep a record, in a substantially bound book, which record s...

Read More

1913 Mo. Laws 437, Municipal Corporations: Cities of the Second Class, § 8, pt. 61.

| | 1913

To regulate the use and storage of explosives – To regulate, restrain and prevent the discharge of firearms, fireworks, rockets or other explosive materials and substances in the city and to regulate the keeping, storage and use of powder, dynami...

Read More

1913 Colo. Sess. Laws 156, To Amend . . . the Revised Statutes of Colorado for 1908, Concerning Powers of Incorporated Towns and Cities, ch. 53, §1.

| | 1913

The city council, or board of trustees in towns, shall have power to regulate or prevent the storage and transportation of gunpowder, tar, pitch . . . or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, within the corporate lim...

Read More

1912 Ky. Acts 593, Regulate Storage of Explosives and Provide Against Fires, § 17.

| | 1912

To regulate the storage of gunpowder, rosin, tar, pitch, cotton, oil and all other explosives and combustible material, and to appoint some suitable person or persons, at seasonable times, to enter and examine such houses as they may designate, in orde...

Read More

1909 Mo. Laws 165, Cities, Towns and Villages: Cities of the First Class, § 55, pt. 50 (L).

| | 1909

To direct and prohibit the management of houses for the storing of gunpowder and other combustibles and dangerous materials within the city; to regulate the keeping and conveying the same; and the use of candles and other lights in stables and other li...

Read More

1909 N.M. Laws 333-34, An Act Providing for the Incorporation of Villages in the Territory of New Mexico, ch. 117, § 8.

| | 1909

That villages incorporated under this act shall have the power by ordinance, to prevent the presence within their limits of anything dangerous, offensive, unhealthy or indecent and to cause any nuisance to be abated; to regulate the transportation, sto...

Read More

1908 Ill. Laws 40-41, Regulate Storage of Combustibles–Fireworks, ¶1334, pt. 65.

| | 1908

To regulate and prevent storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, sho...

Read More

1907 S.D. Sess. Laws 113-14, An Act Entitled an Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities under Commission, ch. 86, § 54, pt. 53.

| | 1907

To regulate and prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in st...

Read More

1907 Iowa Acts 81, ch. 76, § V(e).

| | 1907

If there be kept, used or allowed on the within described premises benzine, benzole, dynamite, ether, fireworks, gasoline, Greek fire, gunpowder, exceeding twenty-five pounds in quantity, naptha, nitroglycerine, or other explosives, phosphorous, calciu...

Read More

1907 Wash. Sess. Laws 634-636, An Act Relating to Cities of the Second Class and Providing for the Government of Such Cities . . . , ch. 241, § 29, pt. 21.

| | 1907

Powers of Council Enumerated. The city council of such city shall have power and authority: . . . 21. Combustibles; To regulate or prohibit the loading or storage of gunpowder and combustible or explosive materials in the city, or transporting the same...

Read More

1904 Mass. Acts 310-11, An Act to Authorize the Fire Marshal’s Department of the District Police to Make Regulations Relative to Explosives and Inflammable Fluids, ch. 370, §§ 1-2

| | 1904

§ 1. The powers conferred on city councils of cities and selectmen of towns by chapter one hundred and two of the Revised Laws, to regulate the keeping, storage, use, manufacture or sale of gunpowder, dynamite or other explosives and inflammable f...

Read More

1904 La. Acts 20, § 5.

| | 1904

That all forfeitures and fines be imposed by the Board of Fire Commissioners, from time to time, upon any member or members of the fire department force by way of discipline, shall be paid into said pension and relief fund. That all fines imposed by th...

Read More

1903 Mont. Laws 135-36, An Act to Amend Section 908 of Chapter I Title VIII Part IV Division I of the Civil Code of Montana, and to Repeal Section 689 of the Penal Code, ch. 66, § 1.

| | 1903

If any railroad corporation within this State shall . . . transport within this State on any of its passenger cars, any oil of vitrol, gun powder, Lucifer matches, nitro glycerine, glynon oil, nytroleum or blasting oil, or nitrates oil, or powder mixed...

Read More

1903 Or. Laws 31, Reg. Sess., Spec. Laws, An Act to Incorporate the City of Portland . . . ,  art. 4, § 73, pt. 36.

| | 1903

To regulate or prevent the storage, manufacture, and sale of dangerous, explosive, or combustible materials, including gunpowder, dynamite, giant powder, calcium carbide, nitro-glycerine, oil, and gas, and to provide for the inspection of the same; to ...

Read More

1903 Haw. Sess. Laws 55, ch. 8, § 25.

| | 1903

To adopt such rules and regulations within the County with regard to the keeping and storing of gun powder, Hercules powder, giant powder, kerosene or coal oil, benzoin, naptha or other explosive or combustible material, as the safety and protection of...

Read More

1902 R.I. Pub. Laws 67, An Act in addition to chapter 40 of the General Laws, Entitled “Of the Town Council”: § 1.

| | 1902

Town councils and city councils may from time to time make and ordain all ordinances and regulations for their respective towns, not repugnant to law, which they may deem necessary for the safety of their inhabitants from the manufacture, storage, keep...

Read More

1902 N.J. Laws 294, An Act Relating to, Regulating and Providing for the Government of Cities, ch. 107, § 14, pt. 33.

| | 1902

. . . [T]o regulate or prohibit the manufacture, sale, storage or use of fireworks and the use of firearms in such city; to regulate or prohibit the manufacture, sale, storage, keeping, or conveying of gunpowder, kerosene, benzine [sic], gasoline, burn...

Read More