{"data":{"id":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-fc-5603","jurisdiction":"us-nyc","citation":"N.Y.C. Admin. Code § FC 5603","heading":"Section FC 5603: Explosives Recordkeeping and Reporting","body":"5603.1 General.\n\nVendors providing high explosives to job sites and/or storage facilities in New York City and blasting contractors conducting blasting operations in New York City shall comply with the regulations of the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and DOTn, with respect the preparation, maintenance and retention of records of the storage, handling and transportation of such explosives. Records shall be maintained of the storage, handling and use of high explosives, detonators, blasting agents, emulsion explosives, including the receipt and disposal of such explosives and the reporting of accidents, loss or theft of explosives, or unauthorized activities in accordance with this section.\n\n5603.2 Transaction record.\n\nVendors of high explosives and blasting contractors shall maintain, on forms prescribed by the commissioner, a record of all transactions involving the receipt, removal, use or disposal of high explosives, including the date and time, name and certificate of fitness number of the magazine keeper, type of high explosives, total amounts deposited and withdrawn, and department serial numbers. These records shall be signed by the blaster, apprentice blaster and magazine keeper. Such records shall be submitted to the department in accordance with department procedures.\n\n5603.2.1 Records of vendors.\n\nVendors of high explosives shall maintain the following records:\n\n1. A weekly record of high explosives delivered from outside New York City to any vendor facility located within New York City.\n\n2. A daily record of high explosives removed from a vendor's facility, delivered to and/or returned from a job site.\n\n3. A daily record of high explosives delivered in and removed from an explosives vehicle at each job site.\n\n5603.2.2 Records of blasting contractors.\n\nBlasting contractors shall maintain the following records:\n\n1. A daily record of high explosives, including the department's serial number codes, delivered by a vendor to each job site.\n\n2. A daily record of high explosives, including the department's serial number codes, received at and removed from each job site magazine.\n\n3. A daily shot record indicating the amount of high explosives received from job site magazines, the date and time of each blast, the amount of high explosives used and the disposition of any unused high explosives.\n\n5603.2.3 Submission to the department.\n\nThe following records shall be submitted to the department on a daily basis:\n\n1. A magazine inventory slip with an entry for each shift indicating the quantity and condition of the high explosives stored therein.\n\n2. A daily shot record.\n\n3. Documentation from an approved central station company of each entry into a Class I magazine, when such monitoring is required by this chapter.\n\n4. Blast monitoring reports in accordance with FC 5607.19.4.\n\n5603.3 Loss, theft or unauthorized removal.\n\nThe loss, theft or unauthorized removal of blasting agents, detonators, emulsion explosives or high explosives from a magazine or permitted facility shall be reported to the department, and all other law enforcement authorities requiring such reporting, including the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, immediately upon discovery of such loss, theft or unauthorized removal.\n\n5603.4 Reserved.\n\n5603.5 Misfires.\n\nThe blaster shall keep a record of all charges that fail to detonate, and notify the department in accordance with FC 5607.18. The blaster shall not re-wire or discharge the misfired explosives without prior department approval.\n\n5603.6 Safety data sheets.\n\nSafety data sheets for each explosive being stored, handled or used on any premises shall be maintained at such premises in accordance with FC 5003.4.\n\n5603.7 Safety rules.\n\nSafety rules covering the operation of magazines, as described in FC 5604.7, shall be posted on the interior of the magazine in a visible location.\n\n5603.8 Marking of explosives for blasting.\n\nExplosives to be stored, handled, used, transported or sold for blasting purposes shall be marked in accordance with FC 5603.8.1 through 5603.8.4.\n\n5603.8.1 High explosives.\n\nHigh explosives packaging shall be conspicuously marked with:\n\n1. The manufacturer's name, brand name, date shift code, and classification code.\n\n2. The words \"HIGH EXPLOSIVES – DANGEROUS – HANDLE CAREFULLY\" on the top.\n\n3. The actual number of cartridges within the package, cartridge dimensions, the case weight and any storage instructions.\n\n4. The department's ten-digit serial number code.\n\n5603.8.2 High explosives cartridges.\n\nHigh explosive cartridges, sticks, tubes, wrappers, bags, casts, or other forms of packaged high explosives shall be of vermillion in color, unless otherwise approved, and marked with:\n\n1. The manufacturer's name, date shift code and brand of explosive.\n\n2. The words \"HIGH EXPLOSIVES – DANGEROUS – HANDLE CAREFULLY\".\n\n3. The department's ten-digit serial number code on both ends of the cartridge, unless otherwise authorized by the department.\n\n5603.8.3 Detonator packaging.\n\nDetonator packaging shall be marked with:\n\n1. The manufacturer's name, brand name and date shift code.\n\n2. The words \"DETONATORS – DANGEROUS – HANDLE CAREFULLY\" on two sides.\n\n3. The actual number of detonators in the package, or the number of packages and detonators per package.\n\n4. The department's two-letter, three-digit serial numbers for each detonator or package of detonators contained therein. The first package shall be designated as AA 001 and each subsequent package numbered consecutively as AA 002 through AA 999. The second sequence shall begin with AB 001 and shall continue in the same alpha-numeric fashion for subsequent packages.\n\n5. For tunnel blasting, the contractor's name and the job site location, or an approved abbreviation, shall be used.\n\n5603.8.4 Individual detonators.\n\nIndividual detonators shall be marked with:\n\n1. A shell, band or tag with the manufacturer's name and brand name.\n\n2. The words \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"EXPLOSIVES – DANGEROUS – DETONATOR\" or \"EXPLOSIVES – DANGEROUS – BLASTING CAP,\" as applicable, on the shell, band or tag.\n\n3. A tag or sticker bearing the department's two-letter/three-digit serial number, the delay period, and date shift code.","path":["New York City Administrative Code","Title 29","Chapter 2: New York City Fire Code"],"source_url":"https://files.amlegal.com/pdffiles/NewYorkCity/Admin/XML.zip","current_through":"Local Law 2026/135 (enacted August 31, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T02:48:57Z","sha256":"f74c2723799fdba75427802c8ba28a63254222d0e025d52c5ac166490a57bc7d","source_id":"us-nyc","stale":true,"prev":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-fc-5602","next":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-fc-5604"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}