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Subchapter 7. General Industry Safety Orders
Group 18. Explosives and Pyrotechnics
 Article 123. Small Arms Ammunition and Primers, and Smokeless and Black Powder Propellants
  
§5373. Black Powder Propellants.
(a) All black powder propellants shall be stored in shipping containers approved 
by the U.S. Department of Transportation. 
  (b) Quantities of black powder propellant in excess of 50 pounds shall be stored 
  in an outdoor magazine. 
  (c) If smokeless propellants are stored in the same magazine with black powder 
  propellants, the total quantity shall not exceed that permitted for black powder 
  propellants. 
  NOTE 
  Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor 
  Code. 
  HISTORY 
  1. Repealer of subsections (b) and (c), subsection relettering and new Note 
  filed 7-11-2003; operative 8-10-2003 (Register 2003, No. 28). 
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