PRINTER'S NO. 1830
No. 1514 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY SERAFINI, KIRKLAND, PLATTS, RAMOS, STABACK, TIGUE,
WILLIAMS, WOGAN AND YOUNGBLOOD, MAY 12, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, MAY 12, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 10, 1957 (P.L.685, No.362), entitled
2 "An act regulating the use of explosives in certain blasting
3 operations; requiring examination and licensing of certain
4 explosives' detonators and prescribing the fee thereof; and
5 conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of
6 Labor and Industry," further providing for blasting
7 operations and for penalties.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. Section 3 of the act of July 10, 1957 (P.L.685,
11 No.362), referred to as the Explosives Use Regulation Law, is
12 amended by adding a subsection to read:
13 Section 3. Blasting Operations Conducted in Accordance With
14 Regulations.--* * *
15 (a.1) In all blasting operations, the blaster or person in
16 charge of the blasting operations shall provide notice, no less
17 than twenty-four hours prior to commencement of the blasting
18 operations, to the property owner or owners of any dwelling
19 house, public building, school, church, commercial or
20 institutional building located within eight hundred feet of the
1 immediate location that blasting operations are contemplated.
2 The notice shall include, at a minimum, the name, address and
3 telephone number of the blaster or person in charge, the date
4 and time scheduled for each blasting operation and the distance,
5 actual or approximate between the property of the owner so
6 notified and the immediate location.
7 * * *
8 Section 2. Section 5 of the act is amended to read:
9 Section 5. Penalties.--Any person violating any of the
10 provisions of this act, or any of the rules or regulations [of
11 the Department of Labor and Industry made pursuant thereto,
12 shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding, be sentenced to
13 pay a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one
14 hundred dollars ($100), and upon failure to pay such fine and
15 costs, shall undergo imprisonment for not more than thirty
16 days.] promulgated under this act, commits a misdemeanor of the
17 third degree.
18 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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