Use of toxic fire-extinguishing agents prohibited.

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No person, partnership, association, or corporation shall use or install for use in any place of public assemblage, public or private school, hospital, institution, business or office building, apartment building, penal institution, nursing or convalescent home, factory, mill, workshop, bakery, hotel, motel, store, boarding or bunkhouse, theater, motor vehicle used for the transportation of students or passengers for hire, or establishment wherein laborers are employed any fire extinguisher or fireextinguishing device containing carbon tetrachloride or an active agent having a level of vapor toxicity equal to or greater than carbon tetrachloride. Fire extinguishers acceptable under this article are those covered in national fire protection association's bulletin #10, dated May 19, 1967, entitled "Standard for the Installation of Portable Fire Extinguishers", and national fire protection association's bulletin #10A, dated May 19, 1967, entitled "Maintenance and Use of Portable Fire Extinguishers".

Source: L. 69: p. 185, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 17-5-1.


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