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PUBLIC LAW 86-710-SEPT. 6, 1960

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Public Law 86-710 September 6, 1960

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ACT

To revise title 18, chapter 39, of the United States Code, entitled "Explosives and Combustibles". Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title 18 of the United States Code, sections 831-835, inclusive, entitled "Explosives and Combustibles", as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "CHAPTER 39—EXPLOSIVES AND OTHER DANGEROUS ARTICLES "Sec.

831. Definitions. 832. Transportation of explosives, radioactive materials, etiologic agents, and other dangerous articles. 833. Marking packages containing explosives and other dangerous articles. 834. Regulation by Interstate Commerce Commission. 835. Administration. "§831. Definitions "As used in this chapter— "Unless otherwise indicated, 'carrier' means any person engaged in the transportation of passengers or property, by land, other than pipelines, as a common, contract, or private carrier, or freight ior9o1^ loof i'23^i!^' '^^^^l^^ ^s those terms are used in the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, and officers, agents, and employees of such carriers. " 'Person' means any individual, firm, copartnership, corporation, company, association, or joint-stock association, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof. " 'For-hire carrier' includes common and contract carriers. " 'Shipper' shall be construed to include officers, agents, and employees of shippers. " 'Interstate and foreign commerce' means commerce between a point in one State and a point in another State, between points in the same State through another State or through a foreign country, between points in a foreign country or countries through the United States, and commerce between a point in the United States and a point in a foreign country or in a Territory or possession of the United States, but only insofar as such commerce takes place in the United States. The term 'United States' means all the States and the District of Columbia. " 'State' includes the District of Columbia. " 'Detonating fuzes' means fuzes used in military service to detonate the explosive charges of military projectiles, mines, bombs, or torpedoes. " 'Fuzes' means devices used in igniting the explosive charges of projectiles. " 'Fuses' means the slow-burning fuses used commercially to convey fire to an explosive combustible mass. " 'Fusees' means the fusees ordinarily used on steamboats, railroads, and motor carriers as night signals. " 'Radioactive materials' means any materials or combination of materials that spontaneously emit ionizing radiation. " 'Etiologic agents' means the causative agent of such diseases as may from time to time be listed in regulations governing etiologic agents prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission under section 834 of this chapter.

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