City of Spokane

Spokane Municipal Code

***Note: Many local criminal codes can now be located under Chapter 10.60 SMC while others are now cited under the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), which was incorporated into the municipal code in 2022. (See SMC 10.58.010). Code Enforcement, including Noise Control and Animal Regulations are located in Chapters 10.62 through 10.74.

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Title 10
Chapter 10.29
Section 10.29.012
 

Title 10 Regulation of Activities

Division II. License Code

Chapter 10.29 Contractors and Workers

Article I. Blasting

Section 10.29.012 Prohibited Activities

This chapter does not authorize and the city engineer does not issue a permit for the use of:

  1. liquid nitroglycerin;
     
  2. dynamite, except gelatin dynamite, containing over sixty percent liquid explosive ingredient;
     
  3. dynamite having an unsatisfactory absorbent or one that permits leakage of a liquid explosive ingredient under conditions liable to exist during storage;
     
  4. nitrocellulose in a dry and uncompressed condition in a quantity greater than ten pounds net weight in one package;
     
  5. fulminate of mercury in a dry condition or fulminate of all other metals in any condition except as a component of manufactured articles not forbidden;
     
  6. explosive compositions that ignite spontaneously or undergo marked decomposition rendering the product or its use more hazardous when subjected to forty-eight consecutive hours or less of a temperature of one hundred sixty-seven degrees Fahrenheit;
     
  7. new explosives not approved by the United States department of transportation;
     
  8. explosives condemned by the department of transportation;
     
  9. explosives not packed and marked as required by the department of transportation;
     
  10. explosives containing an ammonium salt and a chlorate.

Date Passed: Monday, June 4, 2007

Effective Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2007

ORD C34041 Section 1 (Recodification)