Title 5 - Business Licenses and Regulations

5.36 Explosives & Blasting Agents1

  1. 1.
    For the statutory provisions defining as a crime, the selling or buying of explosives without a permit, and prohibiting certain sales outright, see K.S.A. 21-4207 – 21-4209; for the statutory provisions that require the State Fire Marshal to make rules and regulations for keeping, storing, use, manufacture, sale … of highly inflammable materials … including explosives, see K.S.A. 31-207. For the administrative provisions implementing that directive, see Kansas Admin. Regs. 22-1 to 22-8.

5.36.080 Operations Requiring Permits.

A permit issued pursuant to this chapter shall be obtained from the City Fire Marshal for any of the operations listed below in order to achieve greater fire safety and protection of the public; provided, all permits shall be acknowledged and endorsed in writing by the City Fire Department and Police Department:

  1. A.
    To manufacture, possess, store, keep, sell or otherwise dispose of any explosives, special industrial explosive materials, or blasting agents;
  2. B.
    To maintain any facility for loading, unloading, reloading, or transshipment of explosives or blasting agents, or the temporary retention of explosives or blasting agents in connection therewith;
  3. C.
    To use any explosives or blasting agents;
  4. D.
    To keep on hand any quantity of explosives or blasting agents in industrial research laboratories and laboratories of technical institutes, colleges, universities, and similar institutions.

(History: Ord. EBA-3320 §3, 2021; Ord. EBA-948,B §7, 89; EBA-948 §7, 77; EBA-410 §8(1))

Effective on: 1/1/1901