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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 739 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. However, under this section, it shall be lawful to transport on any such car or vehicle, smokeless powder, primers, fuses, not including detonating fuzes, fireworks, or other similar explosives, and properly packed and marked samples of explosives for laboratory examination, not exceeding a net weight of one-half pound each, and not exceeding twenty samples at one time in a single car or vehicle; but such explosives shall not be carried in that part of a car or vehicle which is being used for the transportation of passengers for hire. Also, it shall be lawful to transport on any such car or vehicle small- arms ammunition in any quantity, and such fusees, torpedoes, rockets, or other signal devices as may be essential to promote safety in opera- tion. This section shall not prevent the transportation of military or naval forces with their accompanying munitions of war on passenger- equipment cars or vehicles. § 833. TRANSPORTATION OF NITROGLYCERIN Whoever knowingly transports, carries, or conveys within the juris- diction of the United States, liquid nitroglycerin, fulminate in bulk in dry condition, or other like explosive, on any car or vehicle of any description operated in the transportation of passengers or property by land or water by a common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, 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. § 834. MARING PACKAGES CONTAINING EXPLOSIVES Whoever knowingly delivers to any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by land or water, or carries upon any car or vehicle operated by any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by land any explosive, or other dangerous article, specified in section 832 of this title, under any false or deceptive mark- Ante, P. 738 ing, description, invoice, shipping order, or other declaration, or with- out informing the agent of such carrier in writing of the true character thereof, at or before the time such delivery or carriage is made, or without plainly marking on the outside of every package containing explosives or other dangerous articles the contents thereof, 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. § 835. REGULATIONS BY INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION The Interstate Commerce Commission shall formulate regulations for the safe transportation within the limits of the jurisdiction of the United States of explosives and other dangerous articles, including flammable liquids, flammable solids, oxidizing materials, corrosive liquids, compressed gases, and poisonous substances, which shall be binding upon all common carriers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce which transport explosives or other dangerous articles by land, and upon all shippers making shipments of explosives or other dangerous articles via any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by land or water. The commission, of its own motion, or upon application made by any interested party, may make changes or modifications in such regula- tions, made desirable by new information or altered conditions. Such regulations shall be in accord with the best-known practicable means for securing safety in transit, covering the packin mar g, loading, handling while in transit, and the precautions necessary to

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