N.Y. General Business Law § 322-b: Explosives and combustibles

§ 322-b. Explosives and combustibles. 1. A person who makes or keeps

gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, or any other explosive or combustible

material, within a city or village, or carries such materials through

the streets thereof, in a quantity or manner prohibited by law or by

ordinance of the city or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

2. A person who manufactures gunpowder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine,

liquid or compressed air or gases, except acetylene gas and other gases

used for illuminating purposes, naptha, gasoline, benzine or any

explosive articles or compounds, or manufactures ammunition, fireworks

or other articles of which such substances are component parts in a

cellar, room, or apartment of a tenement or dwelling-house or any

building occupied in whole or in part by persons or families for living

purposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

3. And a person who, by the careless, negligent, or unauthorized use

or management of gunpowder or other explosive substances, injures or

occasions the injury of the person or property of another, is guilty of

a misdemeanor.

4. Any person or persons who shall knowingly present, attempt to

present, or cause to be presented or offered for shipment to any

railroad, steamboat, steamship, express or other company engaged as

common carrier of passengers or freight, dynamite, nitro-glycerine,

powder or other explosives dangerous to life or limb, without revealing

the true nature of said explosives or substance so offered or attempted

to be offered to the company or carrier to which it shall be presented,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

5. Any person who, while engaged in the unauthorized distillation of

any liquid containing methyl or ethyl alcohol, causes injuries or

occasions the injury of the person or property of another by reason of

such distillation is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Nothing in this section contained shall be construed to prohibit or

forbid the manufacture and sale of sodawater, seltzer-water, ginger ale,

carbonic or mineral water or the charging with liquid carbonic acid gas

of such waters or ordinary waters, or of beer, wines, ales or other malt

and vinous beverages in such cellar, room or apartment of a tenement or

dwelling-house, or any building occupied in whole or in part by persons

or families for living purposes.