Section 66. Inflammable or explosive articles prohibited  


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  • 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.