Section 455. Magazine precautions  


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  • 1. No individual shall unlock, open the
      doors of, or access the contents of, explosive magazines, except for the
      lawful  storage  or  removal  of  explosives  and  in  accordance   with
      regulations  of the commissioner. No employer shall allow any individual
      access to the explosive magazines or explosives of the employer unless a
      license has been  issued  to  the  individual  by  the  commissioner  as
      provided  in  this  article,  or  the  individual  is  under  the direct
      supervision of the license holder.
        No person shall have matches or fire of any kind in any  magazine.  No
      person  shall  store  or  keep  blasting caps, detonating or fulminating
      caps, or detonators in a magazine in which any other type  of  explosive
      is stored or kept. No person shall open any package of explosives within
      fifty  feet  of  any  magazine,  nor  shall  any explosives be kept in a
      magazine except in the original containers, or as otherwise provided  by
      regulations  promulgated  under  this article. No person shall discharge
      firearms within five hundred feet of a magazine or  explosives  factory,
      or  at  or  against  any such building or magazine. Any theft or loss of
      explosives from a storage magazine or otherwise,  shall  immediately  be
      reported  to  the  commissioner  and the state or local police or county
      sheriff.