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military projectiles" for "naval or military service to 

 detonate the hlgh-exploslve bursting charges of 

 projectiles" under "detonating fuzes", "explosive" for 

 "bursting" under "fuzes", Included motor carriers under 

 "fusees", and deleted "slowly or without danger to the 

 person lighting same" following "mass" under "fuses", 

 and the deflnltlon of "primers." 



§832. Transportation of explosives, radioactive mate- 

 rials, etiologic agents, and other dangerous 

 articles. 



(a) Any person who knowingly transports, carries, 

 or conveys within the United States, any dangerous 

 explosives, such as and including, dynamite, blast- 

 ing caps, detonating fuzes, black powder, gunpowder, 

 or other like explosive, or any radioactive materials, 

 or etiologic agents, on or in any passenger car or 

 passenger vehicle of any description operated in the 

 transportation of passengers by any for-hire carrier 

 engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, by land, 

 shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned 

 not more than one year, or both; and, if the death 

 or bodily injury of any person results from a viola- 

 tion of this section, shall be fined not more than 

 $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or 

 both: Provided, however, That such explosives, 

 radioactive materials, or etiologic agents may be 

 transported on or in such car or vehicle whenever 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission finds that an 

 emergency requires an expedited movement, in 

 which case such emergency movements shall be 

 made subject to such regulations as the Commission 

 may deem necessary or desirable in the public in- 

 terest in each instance: Provided further. That 

 under this section it shall be lawful to transport 

 on or in any such car or vehicle, small quantities of 

 explosives, radioactive materials, etiologic agents, 

 or other dangerous commodities of the kinds. In 

 such amounts, and under such conditions as may be 

 determined by the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 to involve no appreciable danger to persons or 

 property: And provided further. That it shall be 

 lawful to transport on or in any such car or vehicle 

 such fusees, torpedoes, rockets, or other signal de- 

 vices as may be essential to promote safety In the 

 operation of any such car or vehicle on or in which 

 transported. This section shall not prevent the 

 transportation of military forces with their ac- 

 companying munitions of war on passenger-equip- 

 ment cars or vehicles. 



(b) No person shall knowingly transport, carry 

 or convey within the United States liquid nitro- 

 glycerin, fulminate in bulk in dry condition, or other 

 similarly dangerous explosives, or radioactive 

 materials, or etiologic agents, on or in any car or 

 vehicle of any description operated in the transpor- 

 tation of passengers or property by any carrier 

 engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, by land, 

 except under such rules and regulations as the Com- 

 mission shall specifically prescribe with respect to 

 the safe transportation of such commodities. The 

 Commission shall from time to time determine and 

 prescribe what explosives are "other similarly dan- 

 gerous explosives", and may prescribe the route or 

 routes over which such explosives, radioactive ma- 

 terials, or etiologic agents shall be transported. 



Any person who violates this provision, or any 

 regulation prescribed hereunder by the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission, shall be fined not more 

 than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, 

 or both; and, if the death or bodily injury of any 

 person results from a violation of this section, shall 

 be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not 

 more than ten years, or both. 



(c) Any shipment of radioactive materials made 

 by or under the direction or supervision of the 

 Atomic Energy Commission or the Department of 

 Defense which is escorted by personnel specially 

 designated by or under the authority of the Atomic 

 Energy Commission or the Department of Defense, 

 as the case may be, for the purpose of national 

 security, shall be exempt from the requirements of 

 sections 831 — 835 of this chapter and the rules and 

 regulations prescribed thereunder. In the case of 

 any shipment of radioactive materials made by 

 or imder the direction or supervision of the Atomic 

 Energy Commission or the Department of Defense, 

 which is not so escorted by specially designated per- 

 sonnel, certification upon the bill of lading by or 

 under the authority of the Atomic Energy Commis- 

 sion or the Department of.pefense, as the case may 

 be, that the shipment contains radioactive materials 

 shall be conclusive as to content, and no further 

 description shall be necessary or required ; but each 

 package, receptacle, or other container In such 

 unescorted shipment shall on the outside thereof 

 be plainly marked "radioactive materials", and shall 

 not be opened for Inspection by the carrier. (June 

 25, 1948, ch. 645. 62 Stat. 738: Sept. 8, 19«0, Pub. L. 

 86-710, 74 Stat. 809.) 



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1960— Pub. L. 88-710 substituted "explosives, radio- 

 active materials, etiologic agents, and other dangerous 

 articles" for "dynamite, powder, and fuses" In the catch- 

 line, redesignated existing provisions as subsec. (a), and 

 therein added provisions permitting shipments of pro- 

 Interstate Commerce Commission regulation, and car- 

 scribed Items on passenger cars. In an emergency, under 

 rlage of such articles In small amounts under prescribed 

 conditions, and of rockets and signal devices necessary 

 to the safe operation of the vehicle, substituted "within 

 the United States, any dangerous explosives" for "within 

 the limits of Jurisdiction of the United States, any high 

 explosive". Included radioactive materials, and etiologic 

 agents, and extended application from common carriers 

 to any for-hlre carrier operating passenger cars or ve- 

 hicles In the transportation of passengers by land, and 

 deleted provisions which made It lawful to transport 

 smokeless i>owder, primers, non-detonating fuses, flre- 

 works, ana sajnples for laboratory examination each 

 not exceeding one-half pound In weight, nor exceeding 

 twenty samples In a single vehicle, and added subsecs. (b) 

 and (c). 



§833. Marking packages containing explosives and 

 other dangerous articles. 



Any person who knowingly delivers to any carrier 

 engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by land 

 or water, and any person who knowingly carries on 

 or in any car or vehicle of any description operated 

 In the transportation of passengers or property by 

 any carrier engaged in interstate or foreign com- 

 merce, by land, any explosive, or other dangerous 

 article, specified in or designated by the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission pursuant to section 834 of 



