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§ 66. Inflammable or explosive articles prohibited.
1.No loose hay,\nloose cotton, or loose hemp, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naptha, benzine,\nbenzol, coal-oil, crude petroleum or other like explosive burning fluids\nor dangerous articles, shall be carried as freight or used as stores on\nany public vessel carrying passengers licensed under this chapter,\nexcept that refined petroleum which will not ignite at a temperature of\nless than one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit may be carried on the\nmain deck of any public vessel, provided the barrels or cases containing\nsuch oil are fully covered with a tarpaulin. But nothing in this section\nshall be construed to prevent any vessel utilizing petroleum, petroleum\nproducts or other mineral oils as a source of motive power, from\ncarryin
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§ 66. Inflammable or explosive articles prohibited. 1. No loose hay,\nloose cotton, or loose hemp, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naptha, benzine,\nbenzol, coal-oil, crude petroleum or other like explosive burning fluids\nor dangerous articles, shall be carried as freight or used as stores on\nany public vessel carrying passengers licensed under this chapter,\nexcept that refined petroleum which will not ignite at a temperature of\nless than one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit may be carried on the\nmain deck of any public vessel, provided the barrels or cases containing\nsuch oil are fully covered with a tarpaulin. But nothing in this section\nshall be construed to prevent any vessel utilizing petroleum, petroleum\nproducts or other mineral oils as a source of motive power, from\ncarrying for its own use, in reasonable quantities, petroleum, petroleum\nproducts and oils in metal tanks, properly protected, vented and\nlocated, such tanks, their piping, equipment and manner of installation\nto be subject to the approval of the inspector, and such approval when\ngiven shall be indorsed on the certificate of inspection issued to such\nvessel, nor shall the provisions of this section prohibit the\ntransportation by vessels of gasoline or other petroleum products when\ncarried in the tanks of motor vehicles using gasoline or petroleum\nproducts as a source of motive power, provided that all fire in such\nvehicles shall be extinguished and their engines and motors stopped\nimmediately after boarding such vessels, and no fire shall be lighted\nnor the engine or motor of such vehicle shall be started until\nimmediately before such vehicle shall leave the vessel.\n 2. It shall be unlawful for the operator of any marina providing\nfacilities for sale of fuel to vessels, to maintain fuel pumps on the\npremises unless equipped as may be necessary for the arresting of static\nelectricity. All motors and generators on the vessel being refueled\nshall be turned off during the refueling process.\n A violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a\nviolation punishable as set forth in section seventy-three-c of this\narticle.\n