Legislation
SECTION 66
Inflammable or explosive articles prohibited
Navigation (NAV) CHAPTER 37, ARTICLE 4, PART 2
§ 66. Inflammable or explosive articles prohibited. 1. No loose hay,
loose cotton, or loose hemp, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naptha, benzine,
benzol, coal-oil, crude petroleum or other like explosive burning fluids
or dangerous articles, shall be carried as freight or used as stores on
any public vessel carrying passengers licensed under this chapter,
except that refined petroleum which will not ignite at a temperature of
less than one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit may be carried on the
main deck of any public vessel, provided the barrels or cases containing
such oil are fully covered with a tarpaulin. But nothing in this section
shall be construed to prevent any vessel utilizing petroleum, petroleum
products or other mineral oils as a source of motive power, from
carrying for its own use, in reasonable quantities, petroleum, petroleum
products and oils in metal tanks, properly protected, vented and
located, such tanks, their piping, equipment and manner of installation
to be subject to the approval of the inspector, and such approval when
given shall be indorsed on the certificate of inspection issued to such
vessel, nor shall the provisions of this section prohibit the
transportation by vessels of gasoline or other petroleum products when
carried in the tanks of motor vehicles using gasoline or petroleum
products as a source of motive power, provided that all fire in such
vehicles shall be extinguished and their engines and motors stopped
immediately after boarding such vessels, and no fire shall be lighted
nor the engine or motor of such vehicle shall be started until
immediately before such vehicle shall leave the vessel.
2. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any marina providing
facilities for sale of fuel to vessels, to maintain fuel pumps on the
premises unless equipped as may be necessary for the arresting of static
electricity. All motors and generators on the vessel being refueled
shall be turned off during the refueling process.
A violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a
violation punishable as set forth in section seventy-three-c of this
article.
loose cotton, or loose hemp, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naptha, benzine,
benzol, coal-oil, crude petroleum or other like explosive burning fluids
or dangerous articles, shall be carried as freight or used as stores on
any public vessel carrying passengers licensed under this chapter,
except that refined petroleum which will not ignite at a temperature of
less than one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit may be carried on the
main deck of any public vessel, provided the barrels or cases containing
such oil are fully covered with a tarpaulin. But nothing in this section
shall be construed to prevent any vessel utilizing petroleum, petroleum
products or other mineral oils as a source of motive power, from
carrying for its own use, in reasonable quantities, petroleum, petroleum
products and oils in metal tanks, properly protected, vented and
located, such tanks, their piping, equipment and manner of installation
to be subject to the approval of the inspector, and such approval when
given shall be indorsed on the certificate of inspection issued to such
vessel, nor shall the provisions of this section prohibit the
transportation by vessels of gasoline or other petroleum products when
carried in the tanks of motor vehicles using gasoline or petroleum
products as a source of motive power, provided that all fire in such
vehicles shall be extinguished and their engines and motors stopped
immediately after boarding such vessels, and no fire shall be lighted
nor the engine or motor of such vehicle shall be started until
immediately before such vehicle shall leave the vessel.
2. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any marina providing
facilities for sale of fuel to vessels, to maintain fuel pumps on the
premises unless equipped as may be necessary for the arresting of static
electricity. All motors and generators on the vessel being refueled
shall be turned off during the refueling process.
A violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a
violation punishable as set forth in section seventy-three-c of this
article.