2013 New York Consolidated Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 19 - (300 - 308) OIL AND DISTILLED SPIRITS
306 - Fire and light within one hundred and fifty feet of warehouses in the counties of New York, Kings, Queens and Nassau prohibited.


NY Gen Bus L § 306 (2012) What's This?
 
    §  306. Fire and light within one hundred and fifty feet of warehouses
  in the counties of New York, Kings, Queens  and  Nassau  prohibited.  No
  person shall bring, have, keep or use or suffer or permit to be brought,
  kept,  had  or  used  on  board  of any ship, vessel, canal boat, barge,
  lighter, boat or other craft lying at or  within  the  distance  of  one
  hundred  and  fifty  feet  of  any  warehouse,  yard,  shed, dock, pier,
  bulkhead, wharf or other place within the counties of New  York,  Kings,
  Queens  or  Nassau  at,  in  or  upon  which petroleum oil or any of its
  products is stored or is kept for export or in quantities exceeding  ten
  thousand  gallons,  or  at,  in  or upon any such warehouse, shed, yard,
  dock, pier, bulkhead or other place, any lighted match or lighted cigar,
  cigarette or pipe, or any fire or light of any kind,  except  in  strict
  conformity   to   the   written  permission  of  the  owner,  lessee  or
  superintendent of such warehouse,  yard,  shed,  dock,  pier,  bulkhead,
  wharf  or  other  place, specifying the fire or light to be kept, had or
  used, the particular purpose for and the place or spot at which the same
  may be so kept, had or used and the particular manner of keeping, having
  and using the same.
    This section shall not apply to steam  tugs  while  transacting  their
  ordinary  business  nor  to  steam fire engines engaged in extinguishing
  fires.

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