CHAPTER 535

H.P. 1253 - L.D. 1731

An Act To Expand the State Fire Marshal's

Responsibilities and To Clarify That the

Commissioner of Public Safety Will Follow the Maine

Administrative Procedure Act when Adopting Certain Rules

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1001, sub-§2, ķA, as enacted by PL 1975, c. 499, §1, is amended to read:

A. "Explosives" means gunpowders, powders used for blasting all forms of high explosives, blasting materials, fuses (other than electric circuit breakers), detonators, and other detonating agents, smokeless powders, and any chemical compounds, mechanical mixtures or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing that ignition by fire, by friction, by chemical reaction, by concussion, by percussion or, by detonation or deflagration of the compound or material or any part thereof may cause an explosion; and

Sec. 2. 25 MRSA §2396, sub-§3, as repealed and replaced by PL 1973, c. 632, §6, is amended to read:

3. Explosives. The storage, sale and use of combustibles, flammables, incendiary devices and explosives;

Sec. 3. 25 MRSA §2452, as amended by PL 2003, c. 411, §§2 and 3, is further amended to read: