Accounting and recordkeeping requirements; access to records.

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(1) Dealers must keep accurate accounts of all inventories and sales of explosive materials including explosive materials sold and used for agricultural purposes. All the sales must be evidenced by invoices or sales tickets executed in quadruplicate, the dealer retaining the original and one copy, delivering a third copy to the purchaser, and forwarding a fourth copy to the State Fire Marshal.

(2) A carbon copy of the Explosive Transaction Record as required by the United States Department of the Treasury-Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the invoices or sales tickets delivered to purchasers must bear the name of the manufacturer or dealer and purchaser, date of sale, date-shift code, quantity sold, use for which the explosive materials are purchased, and the address of the purchaser.

(3) Upon the sale or delivery of any explosive materials within the State, the selling and receiving agency of either of them shall notify the State Fire Marshal of the sale or delivery by forwarding a copy of the bill of sale or bill of lading to him.

(4) Dealers must retain all records of inventories, invoices, sales tickets, and copies and make them available to any law enforcement officer of this State and to the State Fire Marshal or his representative at such time as the State Fire Marshal considers appropriate.

(5) A blaster must keep an accurate, written inventory of all explosive materials possessed by him and a record of the use of explosive materials on forms approved by the State Fire Marshal. The inventory and record of use must be made available to any law enforcement officer of this State or to the State Fire Marshal or his representative at such time as the State Fire Marshal considers appropriate.

(6) Records required to be maintained under subsections (1) through (5) of this section may not be disposed of without approval by the State Fire Marshal. Any business which terminates its operations must turn over its records to the State Fire Marshal.

HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 480, Section 6.


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