California Code of Regulations
Title 19 - Public Safety
Division 1 - State Fire Marshal
Chapter 10 - Explosives
Subchapter 2 - Administration
Article 2 - Sale, Use, Handling, Possession, and Storage of Explosives
Section 1559.19 - "S" Definitions

Universal Citation: 19 CA Code of Regs 1559.19

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) Small arms ammunition shall mean ammunition of .75 caliber or less when designated as a Class C explosive by the U.S.D.O.T.

(b) Small arms ammunition primers shall mean small percussion sensitive explosive charges, encased in a cup, used to ignite propellants.

(c) Special industrial explosive devices shall mean explosive actuated power devices and propellant-actuated power devices.

(d) Special industrial explosive materials shall mean shaped materials and sheet forms and various other extrusions, pellets, and packages, of high explosives, which include dynamite, trinitrotoluene (TNT) pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), cyclotrimethylene trinitramine (RDX), and other similar compounds used for high-energy-rate forming, expanding and shaping in metal fabrication, and for dismemberment and quick reduction of scrap metal.

1. New section filed 8-2-73 as an emergency; effective upon filing (Register 73, No. 31).
2. New section filed 11-23-73 as an emergency; designated effective 11-30-73. Certificate of Compliance included (Register 73, No. 47).

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