Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 70 Public Health And Safety - Chapter 70.74 Washington State Explosives Act

70.74.010 Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context: (1) The terms "authorized", "approved" or "approval" shall be held ...

70.74.013 Funds collected by department
All funds collected by the department under RCW 70.74.137 through 70.74.146 and 70.74.360 shall be transferred to the state treasurer for deposit into the accident ...

70.74.020 Restrictions on manufacture, sale, or storage -- Users -- Reports on storage -- Waiver
(1) No person shall manufacture, possess, store, sell, purchase, transport, or use explosives or blasting agents except in compliance with this chapter. (2) The director ...

70.74.022 License required to manufacture, purchase, sell, use, possess, transport, or store explosives -- Penalty -- Surrender of explosives by unlicensed person -- Other relief
(1) It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, purchase, sell, offer for sale, use, possess, transport, or store any explosive, improvised device, or components ...

70.74.025 Magazines -- Classification, location and construction -- Standards -- Use
The director of the department of labor and industries shall establish by rule or regulation requirements for classification, location and construction of magazines for storage ...

70.74.030 Quantity and distance tables for storage -- Adoption by rule
All explosive manufacturing buildings and magazines in which explosives or blasting agents except small arms ammunition and smokeless powder are had, kept, or stored, must ...

70.74.040 Limit on storage quantity
No quantity in excess of three hundred thousand pounds, or the equivalent in blasting caps shall be had, kept or stored in any factory building ...

70.74.050 Quantity and distance table for explosives manufacturing buildings
All explosives manufacturing buildings shall be located one from the other and from other buildings on explosives manufacturing plants in which persons are regularly employed, ...

70.74.061 Quantity and distance tables for separation between magazines -- Adoption by rule
Magazines containing blasting caps and electric blasting caps shall be separated from other magazines containing like contents, or from magazines containing explosives by distances set ...

70.74.100 Storage of caps with explosives prohibited
No blasting caps, or other detonating or fulminating caps, or detonators, or flame-producing devices shall be kept or stored in any magazine in which other ...

70.74.110 Manufacturer's report -- Inspection -- License
All persons engaged in the manufacture of explosives, or any process involving explosives, or where explosives are used as a component part in the manufacture ...

70.74.120 Storage report -- Inspection -- License -- Cancellation
All persons engaged in keeping or storing and all persons having in their possession explosives on August 11, 1969, shall within sixty days thereafter, and ...

70.74.130 Dealer in explosives -- Application -- License
Every person desiring to engage in the business of dealing in explosives shall apply to the department of labor and industries for a license therefor. ...

70.74.135 Purchaser of explosives -- Application -- License
All persons desiring to purchase explosives except handloader components shall apply to the department of labor and industries for a license. Said application shall state, ...

70.74.137 Purchaser's license fee
Every person applying for a purchaser's license, or renewal thereof, shall pay an annual license fee of twenty-five dollars. The director of labor and industries ...

70.74.140 Storage license fee
Every person engaging in the business of keeping or storing of explosives shall pay an annual license fee for each magazine maintained, to be graduated ...

70.74.142 User's license or renewal -- Fee
Every person applying for a user's license, or renewal thereof, under this chapter shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars. The director of ...

70.74.144 Manufacturer's license fee -- Manufacturers to comply with dealer requirements when selling
Every person engaged in the business of manufacturing explosives shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars. The director of labor and industries may ...

70.74.146 Seller's license fee -- Sellers to comply with dealer requirements
Every person engaged in the business of selling explosives shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars. The director of labor and industries may ...

70.74.150 Annual inspection
The department of labor and industries shall make, or cause to be made, at least one inspection during every year, of each licensed explosives plant ...

70.74.160 Unlawful access to explosives
No person, except the director of labor and industries or the director's authorized agent, the owner, the owner's agent, or a person authorized to enter ...

70.74.170 Discharge of firearms or igniting flame near explosives
No person shall discharge any firearms at or against any magazine or explosives manufacturing buildings or ignite any flame or flame-producing device nearer than two ...

70.74.180 Explosive devices prohibited -- Penalty
Any person who has in his or her possession or control any shell, bomb, or similar device, charged or filled with one or more explosives, ...

70.74.191 Exemptions
The laws contained in this chapter and regulations prescribed by the department of labor and industries pursuant to this chapter shall not apply to: (1) ...

70.74.201 Municipal or county ordinances unaffected -- State preemption
This chapter shall not affect, modify or limit the power of a city, municipality or county in this state to make an ordinance that is ...

70.74.210 Coal mining code unaffected
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That nothing in this act shall be construed as amending, ...

70.74.230 Shipments out of state -- Dealer's records
If any manufacturer of explosives or dealer therein shall have shipped any explosives into another state, and the laws of such other state shall designate ...

70.74.240 Sale to unlicensed person prohibited
No dealer shall sell, barter, give or dispose of explosives to any person who does not hold a license to purchase explosives issued under the ...

70.74.250 Blasting near fur farms and hatcheries
Between the dates of January 15th and June 15th of each year it shall be unlawful for any person to do, or cause to be ...

70.74.270 Malicious placement of an explosive -- Penalties
A person who maliciously places any explosive or improvised device in, upon, under, against, or near any building, car, vessel, railroad track, airplane, public utility ...

70.74.272 Malicious placement of an imitation device -- Penalties
(1) A person who maliciously places any imitation device in, upon, under, against, or near any building, car, vessel, railroad track, airplane, public utility transmission ...

70.74.275 Intimidation or harassment with an explosive -- Class C felony
Unless otherwise allowed to do so under this chapter, a person who exhibits a device designed, assembled, fabricated, or manufactured, to convey the appearance of ...

70.74.280 Malicious explosion of a substance -- Penalties
A person who maliciously, by the explosion of gunpowder or any other explosive substance or material, destroy or damage any building, car, airplane, vessel, common ...

70.74.285 "Terrorist act" defined
For the purposes of RCW 70.74.270, 70.74.272, and 70.74.280 "terrorist act" means an act that is intended to: (1) Intimidate or coerce a civilian population; ...

70.74.295 Abandonment of explosives
It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon explosives or improvised devices. Violation of this section is a gross misdemeanor punishable under chapter 9A.20 ...

70.74.297 Separate storage of components capable of detonation when mixed
Any two components which, when mixed, become capable of detonation by a No. 6 cap must be stored in separate locked containers or in a ...

70.74.300 Explosive containers to be marked -- Penalty
Every person who shall put up for sale, or who shall deliver to any warehouseman, dock, depot, or common carrier any package, cask or can ...

70.74.310 Gas bombs, explosives, stink bombs, etc
Any person other than a lawfully constituted peace officer of this state who shall deposit, leave, place, spray, scatter, spread or throw in any building, ...

70.74.320 Small arms ammunition, primers and propellants -- Transportation regulations
The federal regulations of the United States department of transportation on the transportation of small arms ammunition, of small arms ammunition primers, and of small ...

70.74.330 Small arms ammunition, primers and propellants -- Separation from flammable materials
Small arms ammunition shall be separated from flammable liquids, flammable solids and oxidizing materials by a fire-resistant wall of one-hour rating or by a distance ...

70.74.340 Small arms ammunition, primers and propellants -- Transportation, storage and display requirements
Quantities of small arms smokeless propellant (class B) in shipping containers approved by the federal department of transportation not in excess of fifty pounds may ...

70.74.350 Small arms ammunition, primers and propellants -- Primers, transportation and storage requirements
Small arms ammunition primers shall not be transported or stored except in the original shipping container approved by the federal department of transportation. Truck or ...

70.74.360 Licenses -- Fingerprint and criminal record checks -- Fee -- Licenses prohibited for certain persons -- License fees
(1) The director of labor and industries shall require, as a condition precedent to the original issuance or renewal of any explosive license, fingerprinting and ...

70.74.370 License revocation, nonrenewal, or suspension
(1) The department of labor and industries shall revoke and not renew the license of any person holding a manufacturer, dealer, purchaser, user, or storage ...

70.74.380 Licenses -- Expiration -- Extension of storage licenses
With the exception of storage licenses for permanent facilities, every license issued under the authority of this chapter shall expire after one year from the ...

70.74.390 Implementation of chapter and rules pursuant to chapter 49.17 RCW
Unless specifically provided otherwise by statute, this chapter and the rules adopted thereunder shall be implemented and enforced, including penalties, violations, citations, appeals, and other ...

70.74.400 Seizure and forfeiture
(1) Explosives, improvised devices, and components of explosives and improvised devices that are possessed, manufactured, delivered, imported, exported, stored, sold, purchased, transported, abandoned, detonated, or ...

70.74.410 Reporting theft or loss of explosives
A person who knows of a theft or loss of explosives for which that person is responsible under this chapter shall report the theft or ...