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.

5.36.090 Insurance and Scale Drawings Required Prior to Permit Issuance.

Before a permit as required under Section 5.36.080 shall be issued, the applicant for such permit shall secure and maintain insurance coverage in accordance with the provisions of the Design and Construction Standards Manual as defined and incorporated by reference in 13.10. Before a permit shall be issued, the applicant shall furnish to the City Fire Marshal a scaled drawing accurately showing the surrounding land, indicating improvements thereupon, and all dimensions and distances relative thereto. The scale drawing shall show distances to all houses, buildings, or other facilities within 500 feet of the blasting or demolition work. The drawing accompanying an application for a permit to store explosives or blasting agents must show distances to buildings and other features in accordance with the American Table of Distances for Storage of Explosives. All permit applications which are not accompanied by the scale drawing shall be refused and will not be considered until such scale drawing accompanies the application for permit. In addition, the City Fire Marshal shall have authority to establish additional written standards for the submission of scaled drawings or other portions of the application process.

(History: Ord. EBA-3320 §4, 2021; Ord. EBA-2850 §1, 2010; EBA-948,B §8, 89; EBA-948,A §1, 84; EBA-948 §8, 77; EBA-410 §8(2))

Effective on: 1/1/1901