of May in each year. Applications must be made upon blanks furnished by the Fire Department and must give the following information:

(a) Name of the person or persons by whom the permit is desired. (b) The location of premises at which goods are to be kept and sold.

(c) Kind of building.

(d) Nature of the business in which applicant is engaged in said premises.

(e) Quantity and description of fireworks.

8 42. No retail permits will be granted for the sale or keeping of fireworks other than approved firecrackers in any building or premises: (a) Where cigars or cigarettes are kept for sale.

(b) Where paints, oils or varnishes are manufactured or kept for use or sale.

(c) Where dry goods of any kind or other light material of a combustible nature, excepting flags, paper lanterns, paper balloons or decorations, are kept for sale.

(d) In carpenter shops or drug stores; in buildings where kerosene or other product of petroleum is licensed to be sold, or any building in which gunpowder, blasting powder, gun cotton, nitroglycerine, petroleum or any of its products, coal oil, camphene, burning fluid or other products or compounds containing any of said substances are kept or sold; where matches or cartridges (unless such cartridges are kept in a fireproof safe or vault) are kept or sold.

(e) Any building or place where tar, pitch, rosin, turpentine, hay, cotton or hemp is manufactured, stored or kept for sale.

Amendment, approved by the Mayor, July 19, 1904.

§ 43. No permit will be issued for sale of fireworks at retail in frame or wooden buildings in those parts of the City where the erection of frame or wooden buildings is prohibited by law. But permits may be issued, at the discretion of the Fire Commissioner, for isolated frame or wooden buildings in those parts of the City in which the erection of same is permitted by law.

§ 44. All parties to whom permits are issued shall place and keep in a convenient part of the premises where fireworks are kept for sale at least six pails of water, to be used in case of fire, and to be kept filled and ready for use at all times.

$45. Not more than one permit will be granted for such sales to be made at premises located on any one block, or within a radius of 50 feet if drawn through a street, or 200 feet if otherwise described. All premises for which said permits are issued must be lighted by gas or electricity, and all lights must be protected with glass or wire globes or screens.

§ 46. The person or persons to whom a retail permit is issued must sign an agreement to use only safety matches on the premises, and not to permit smoking nor the use of any agency for illuminating purposes except gas or electricity upon or about the premises where such sales are permitted, nor to expose any of said fireworks for sale outside the walls of said building, nor in any door or window and that any violation of such agreement or of these regulations shall subject the holder of said permit to the forfeiture of same at the option of the Fire Commissioner.

§ 47. The entire amount of said fireworks that may be kept on hand in any building pursuant to any retail permit issued shall not be in excess of the aggregate market value of five hundred dollars.

§ 48. The fee for a retail permit hereby provided shall be five dollars.

§ 49. A special permit may be granted for the keeping of paper caps and toy torpedoes, for sale at retail only, upon payment of a fee of two dollars.

§ 50. The sale of the following kinds of fireworks or explosives is prohibited, viz.:

Firecrackers containing chlorate of potash or other high explosives, fireworks containing picric acid or picrates, colored fire containing sulphur and chlorate of potash in admixture, bombardments or mandarins made of chlorate of potash mixtures, canes with chlorate mixtures or cartridge exploders.

§ 51. All fireworks sold at retail in the City must have on each package the name or brand of a licensee.

§ 52. No fireworks can be carried through the public streets in vehicles without being securely boxed.

$53. The sale of blank cartridge toy pistols is strictly prohibited. (See chapter 222, Laws of 1900.)

$ 54.

No torpedoes larger than three-quarters of an inch in diameter will be permitted to be sold or stored.

§ 55. No firecrackers larger than seven inches in length and one and one-quarter inch in diameter will be permitted to be sold at retail.

$56. Torpedoes must be packed with sawdust in paper cartons and these in wooden cases. No paper packages or strawboard boxes will be permitted for the container or delivery package.

CHAPTER 5.-USE OF FIREWORKS.

57. Except on Independence Day or the day celebrated as such, and during the 12 hours preceding and the 6 hours following, the use or discharge of fireworks or firecrackers in the City without a license or permit from the Fire Commissioner is prohibited. No license or permit shall be issued for the discharge of fireworks within the City until the person, firm or corporation desiring to secure said license shall have made a written application for same and deposited with the Fire Commissioner a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, approved as to sufficiency by the Comptroller, and conditioned for the payment of any loss, damage or injury resulting to persons or property by reason of the discharge or use of said fireworks.

Manufacturers of fireworks and wholesale dealers who have filed bonds under the provisions of sections 8 and 19 of this part of these regulations shall not be required to file an additional bond under the provisions of this section.

§ 58. No permit shall be issued for the firing of rockets or aerial salutes at any point in the City.

§ 58b. No Roman candles shall be fired anywhere in the City except from a box or frame or other contrivance arranged so as to hold the candle or candles firmly in an upright position so that the

discharge will be straight up in a line perpendicular to the plane of the horizon.

§ 58c. No contrivance, frame or box for firing Roman candles and no mortar shall be placed under any elevated structure or under any overhead wires, or in any place where an elevated structure or any overhead wires would be in the line of fire.

§ 59. No aerial shells, Italian batteries, Chinese mandarins, Roman candles or set pieces shall be fired in the City except by employees of a duly licensed manufacturer or pyrotechnist, under a permit herein provided for. Said employees must be in possession of certificates of fitness from the Fire Commissioner, who will issue the same upon payment of an annual fee of five dollars, after an examination for the purpose of determining whether said employee does or does not possess the requisite experience and qualifications as a practical pyrotechnist.

A fee of two dollars shall be charged for each permit that includes any of the fireworks enumerated in this section.

In case it is impossible to make the display at the time authorized in the permit, the Fire Commissioner may authorize the display at another time by certification on the permit without exacting a further fee.

Annual permits may be issued for daily displays in exhibition places at an annual fee of twenty-five dollars. For weekly displays at an annual fee of ten dollars.

§ 59b. Permits may be issued for street displays in the City for aerial single-break floral shells not larger than 34 inches in diameter nor longer than 3 inches, to be fired one at a time from a paper mortar properly set in box, barrel or framework; for colored fire (powder or torch form); Chinese mandarins suspended in the air; Italian batteries not larger than one inch in length by of an inch in diameter; set pieces consisting only of lance work of brilliant colored fire; and Catherine or pin wheels not larger than 18 inches in diameter and fountains or sprays and Roman candles.

859c. Permits may be issued, in the discretion of the Fire Commissioner, for the display of fireworks in public parks, where the permission of the Department of Parks has been obtained, or on private property for aerial shells, colored fire (powder or torch form), Chinese mandarins suspended in the air, Italian batteries not larger than one inch in length by of an inch in diameter, and set pieces, Roman candles, fountains, sprays and Catherine or pin wheels.

§ 60. Permits shall be issued in duplicate, one of which shall be filed, by the licensee, with the Captain of the police precinct within which the display of fireworks is to be given, and shall be evidence of the right of the person named in permit to give said exhibition. The permit issued shall include the name of the licensee, the names of employees to have charge of said display, together with the consecutive number of their Certificates of Fitness, the place and time of display and, generally, the quantity and kind of fireworks to be discharged, and the distance to be preserved between the point or place of discharge, on the one hand, and the bystanders on the other, and the danger area to be preserved, which shall be sufficient. By danger area is meant in this case a safe distance from

buildings and from numbers of human beings whose bodily safety might be endangered by the combustion or accidental discharge of the pyrotechnics. The licensee must stipulate in his application the names of the persons who are actually to discharge the fireworks.

§ 60b. No permits shall be issued for the display within the boundary signs of an hospital street, or on any property abutting thereon.

§ 61. The use of what are technically known as fireworks showers, or the use of any mixture containing chlorate of potash and sulphur, in theatres or public halls of entertainment, is prohibited.

§ 62. On Independence Day or the day which may be celebrated therefor, fireworks excepting such as are by the terms of this section prohibited, may be discharged without a permit, except that for every display of fireworks within the fire limits, exceeding twentyfive dollars in value, a permit must be obtained from the Fire Commissioner.

The prohibited fireworks within the meaning of this section are as follows:

(a) Firecrackers containing chlorate of potash or other high explosives.

(b) Firecrackers longer than seven inches or larger in diameter than one and one-quarter inch.

(c) Firecrackers containing picric acid or picrates.

(d) Colored fire containing sulphur and chlorate of potash.

(e) Bombardments or mandarins made of chlorate of potash mixtures.

(f) Canes with chlorate mixtures.

(g) Cartridge exploders.

(h) Salutes containing chlorate of potash and sulphur.

(i) All bombs.

(j) All cannon salutes.

(k) Fireworks technically known as flying pigeons, whirlwinds, flying devils, wheat sheaves, gatling battery and the like.

(1) Toy paper caps in roll or strip form, or with more than one cap on a sheet.

63. The use of blank cartridge toy pistols is strictly prohibited. (See chapter 222, Laws of 1900.)

§ 64. The discharge of cannon in the several boroughs of the City, excepting by military organizations under proper authority or excepting by permit from the Fire Commissioner, is prohibited at all times.

§ 65. No metal mortars shall be used under any circumstances, except in an enclosure prepared for a public display of fireworks, and then under such regulations as the Fire Commissioner. may prescribe.

§ 66. No stock of fireworks fit and prepared for a display in the City shall be transported or used unless the quantity in each case has been made known to the Fire Commissioner and a permit obtained therefor.

§ 68. These regulations shall take effect at the expiration of thirty days after approval by the Mayor, as to displays; and on July 15, 1903, as to the remainder thereof. (App. March 27, 1903.)

PART VI.

Use and Storage of Drugs and Chemicals.

CHAPTER 1.

§ 1. No person, firm, or corporation shall do business in the City as a wholesale or retail druggist or engage in any trade, traffic, or manufacture requiring the use or storage of drugs and chemicals in manner and quantity hereinafter specified, without first applying to the Fire Commissioner for authority to keep such kinds and quantities of drugs and chemicals as may be intended to be kept in the premises mentioned in the application.

§ 2. Following the receipt of the application, the Fire Commissioner shall cause a survey of the premises to be made, and in his discretion shall issue a permit authorizing such use or storage of the materials therein mentioned, and upon such terms and conditions as may in the judgment of the Fire Commissioner seem best for the public safety and interest.

CHAPTER 2.-DRUG STORES.

§ 3. By a wholesale drug store shall be understood and meant one in which the special and peculiar business is a customary sale of drugs and chemicals in large quantities, lots, or packages.

§ 4. By a retail drug store shall be meant an apothecary's shop; that is, one in which the special and peculiar business is the dispensation of drugs to consumers and users in small quantities, usually in the form of physicians' prescriptions, and one in which the articles in stock are not customarily dispensed or sold at one time in quantities, lots, or packages as large as those in which they are customarily received at the shop.

§ 5. Any store in which drugs are regularly and customarily dispensed in accordance with physicians' prescriptions but in which also simultaneously, regularly, and customarily drugs and chemicals are sold in large quantities, lots, and packages, or in which proprietary articles are compounded in manner and quantity requiring the use and storage of quantities of drugs and chemicals greater than the maximum quantities permitted in retail drug stores under Schedule "C" of these regulations, shall, for the purposes of these regulations, be classed as a wholesale drug store.

6. Storage houses, warehouses, drug mills, or establishments of any kind, receiving and holding or handling large quantities, lots, or packages of drugs and chemicals, shall, for the purposes of these regulations, be classed as wholesale drug stores; provided, that chemical manufactories, factories, mills, workshops or establishments employing technical processes requiring the use and storage of chemicals, volatile solvents, or substances highly combustile, or dangerous in any way as direct or indirect, or real or virtual explosives, shall be classed as chemical factories and technical establishments, and be governed by the rules and regulations of Chapter 3.

§ 7. The proprietors of wholesale drug stores receiving permits shall pay a fee of ten dollars.