2011 Connecticut Code
Title 29 Public Safety and State Police
Chapter 541 Building, Fire and Demolition Codes. Fire Marshals and Fire Hazards. Safety of Public and Other Structures
Sec. 29-343. (Formerly Sec. 29-83). *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Explosives. Definition.

      Sec. 29-343. (Formerly Sec. 29-83). *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Explosives. Definition. "Explosive", as used in sections 29-344 to 29-349, inclusive, means any chemical compound or any mechanical mixture that contains oxidizing and combustible units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing that ignition by fire, friction, concussion, percussion or detonator may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressure is capable of destroying life or limb or of producing destructive effects to contiguous objects, but not including colloided nitrocellulose in sheets or rods or grains not under one-eighth of an inch in diameter, wet nitrocellulose containing twenty per cent or more moisture and wet nitrostarch containing twenty per cent or more moisture; and manufactured articles shall not be held to be explosive when the individual units contain explosives in such limited quantity, of such nature or in such packing that it is impossible to produce a simultaneous or a destructive explosion of such units to the injury of life, limb or property by fire, friction, concussion, percussion or detonator, including fixed ammunition for small arms, firecrackers, safety fuses and matches. "Explosive", as used in said sections, shall not be deemed to include gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, turpentine or benzine.

      (1949 Rev., S. 4131.)

      *Note: On and after January 1, 2013, this section, as amended by section 16 of public act 09-177 and section 6 of public act 10-54, is to read as follows:

      "Sec. 29-343. (Formerly Sec. 29-83). Explosives. Definition. "Explosive", as used in this chapter, means any chemical compound or any mechanical mixture that contains oxidizing and combustible units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing that ignition by fire, friction, concussion, percussion or detonator may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressure is capable of destroying life or limb or of producing destructive effects to contiguous objects, but not including colloided nitrocellulose in sheets or rods or grains not under one-eighth of an inch in diameter, wet nitrocellulose containing twenty per cent or more moisture and wet nitrostarch containing twenty per cent or more moisture; and manufactured articles shall not be held to be explosive when the individual units contain explosives in such limited quantity, of such nature or in such packing that it is impossible to produce a simultaneous or a destructive explosion of such units to the injury of life, limb or property by fire, friction, concussion, percussion or detonator, including fixed ammunition for small arms, firecrackers, safety fuses and matches. "Explosive", as used in this chapter, shall not be deemed to include gasoline, kerosene, naphtha, turpentine or benzine."

      (1949 Rev., S. 4131; P.A. 09-177, S. 16; P.A. 10-54, S. 6.)

      History: Sec. 29-83 transferred to Sec. 29-343 in 1983; P.A. 09-177 replaced references to Secs. 29-344 to 29-349 with "this chapter", effective January 1, 2011; P.A. 10-54 changed effective date of P.A. 09-177, S. 16, from January 1, 2011, to January 1, 2013, effective May 18, 2010.

      Annotations to former section 29-83:

      Cited. 124 C. 373. Board could reasonably have found plaintiff, in assembling small arms ammunition, was manufacturing explosives and in violation of zoning ordinance which prohibited such manufacture and was not bound by definition of explosives in section 29-83 (29-343) which is limited to sections 29-84 (29-344) to 29-89 (29-349). 155 C. 558.