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 1559.9 - "I" Definitions
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Inhabited buildings shall mean a building or structure regularly used in whole or part as a place of human habitation. The term "inhabited building" shall also mean any church, school, store, railway passenger station, airport terminal for passengers, and any other building or structure where people are accustomed to congregate or assemble.
(b) Issuing authority shall mean either the sheriff of a county, or the chief or other head of a municipal police department of any city or city and county, or the chief of a fire department or fire protection agency, and their authorized representatives, provided that, in the event the designated issuing authority is the chief of a fire department or fire protection agency, such fire department or fire protection agency is organized with regularly paid, full-time personnel. The governing body of any county, city, or city and county shall designate one of the above as the issuing authority within its jurisdiction and shall notify the State Fire Marshal of the person so designated.
1. New section filed 8-2-73 as an emergency; effective upon filing (Register 73, No. 31).
2. Corrective amendment filed 8-17-73 as procedural and organizational; effective upon filing (Register 73, No. 31).
3. New section filed 11-23-73 as an emergency; designated effective 11-30-73. Certificate of Compliance filed 11-30-73 (Register 73, No. 47).
