8278. Supervision.-Each wholesale drug store or drug and chemical supply house shall be continuously under the care and supervision of one or more persons, each holding a certificate of fitness as manager or superintendent or foreman thereof. The number of persons required to hold such certificates shall be stated in the permit. § 279. Fire prevention. 1. Combustible waste.-No person shall store or accumulate broken wood, waste paper or waste packing material of any kind in any part of the building where goods are packed or unpacked; such material shall be removed at the close of each day. Empty barrels, drums or containers from which volatile inflammable oil or other inflammable liquid has been taken, shall be removed from the premises as soon as possible, and in no case shall they be stored therein more than 24 hours. 2. Matches. No person shall keep or carry matches in a cellar or in a packing room of a wholesale drug store or drug and chemical supply house, or in any part of the premises where volatile inflammable oils or highly combustible substances are stored or handled. 3. Packing rooms. Packing rooms shall be located as remotely as practicable from large stocks of stored goods; and the packing room floor shall be kept as free as possible from hay, excelsior and other combustible packing material during work hours. At the close of each day, tables, floors and all parts of the packing room shall be swept clean of such materials, and the sweepings gathered into a metal box or other proper receptacle, which shall be kept closed at night. ARTICLE 25 RETAIL DRUG STORES Sec. 290. Permit; restrictions. $291. Quantities of supplies allowed. 292. Storage. 293. Fire prevention. Sec. 290. Permit; restrictions-No person shall maintain or operate a retail drug store, as defined in § 1 of this chapter, without a permit, but no such permit shall be issued authorizing the manufacture, compounding, dispensing or storing of any of the drugs or chemicals specified in § 275 of this chapter. § 291. Quantities of supplies allowed.-No permit shall be issued for the storage, sale or use in a retail drug store of any of the following substances in quantities greater than those set forth in the following schedule: 1. Acids. Carbolic... Hydrochloric. Nitric. 100 pounds 5 pounds Mercuric oxide (red). 2 pounds 2 pounds 1 pound Mercurous oxide.. Mercury nitrate. Potassium bichromate. Potassium nitrate.. Silver nitrate. Silver oxide. Sodium bichromate. Sodium chlorate. Sodium nitrate. Sodium permanganate... 10 ounces in all 10 pounds 25 pounds in 5-pound containers or less 50 pounds 5 pounds 1 pound The fire commissioner may in his discretion, when no extra hazard is permitted thereby, authorize the storage of larger quantities of substances than those set forth in the foregoing schedule, or of other explosives or inflammable substances not specifically named therein. (Amend. May 25, 1915.) $292. Storage. 1. Chemical affinities. No person shall store chemicals in close proximity to each other when they are of an explosive nature, nor when one increases the energy of decomposition of the other, nor when they are so constituted that they may react upon one another and become explosive or inflammable; 2. Volatile inflammable oils. No person shall manufacture, compound, store or dispense volatile inflammable oil, or substances containing volatile inflammable oil, except under the conditions prescribed in articles 8, 9 and 10 of this chapter. § 293. Fire prevention. 1. Combustible waste.-No person shall store or accumulate broken wood, waste paper, or waste packing material of any kind, in any part of the premises where goods are packed or unpacked. Such materials shall be removed at the close of the day. 2. Lighting. Cellars and basements used by retail drug stores for the storage of volatile inflammable liquids shall be provided with a sufficient number of incandescent electric lights to insure proper illumination throughout. Such lights shall be fitted with keyless sockets and shall be controlled by a switch or switches, located at or near the entrance to such cellar or basement on the grade floor, with a sign at such switch or switches reading "Control of Basement Lights." In addition to the lights herein provided for, there may be installed such individual electric lights as may be required, provided that they shall be controlled by an independent circuit (Amend. May 25, 1915.) ARTICLE 26 MISCELLANEOUS Sec. 300. Violations. Sec. 300. Violations.-Any person who shall willfully violate or neglect or refuse to comply with any provision of this chapter, in addition to any other penalties prescribed by law or ordinance, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment not exceeding 6 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Amend. May 25, 1915.) Sec. 1. Pistols or revolvers, keeping or carrying. § 2. Discharge of small-arms. 3. Sale of toy-pistols. § 4. Cannon firing. 5. Violations. Sec. 1. Pistols or revolvers; keeping or carrying.-Every person to whom a license shall be granted to have and possess a pistol or revolver in a dwelling or place of business in the city shall pay therefor an annual fee of $1. Every person to whom a license shall be granted to have and carry concealed a pistol or revolver in the city shall pay therefor an annual fee of $1.00; provided, that no fee shall be charged or collected for a license to have and carry concealed a pistol or revolver which shall be issued upon the application of the commissioner of correction, or the warden or superintendent of any prison, penitentiary, workhouse or other institution for the detention of persons convicted or accused of crime or offense, or held as witnesses in criminal cases in the city. The fees prescribed by this section shall be collected by the officials issuing the licenses referred to herein and shall be paid by them into the police pension fund, and a return in detail shall be made monthly to the comptroller by such officials of the fees so collected and paid over by them. (Amend. May 11, 1915.) See the "Sullivan Law," L. 1914, ch. 460, § 1897, Penal Law. § 2. Discharge of small-arms.-No person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, rifle, fowling-piece or other firearms in the city; provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the following places: 1. In the Borough of Manhattan. Subd. 1. The territory embraced within the areas of the three reservoirs in Central Park, including the embankments thereof, to enable the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity preserve waters of the city from pollution by seagulls; the bulkhead shed of Pier 58, North River, on the street level, occupied by the Mercantile Marine Rifle Club; the premises of the Bohemian American Sharp Shooters Concord, located at 321-325 East 73rd street; Grand Central Palace on Lexington Avenue between 46th and 47th streets; the quarters of the Inwood Division of the Home Defense League at 4880 Broadway; the quarters of the Rifle and Revolver Club of New York, Inc., in the basement of the premises located at No. 1140 St. Nicholas Avenue; the Polo Grounds, 8th Avenue at 157th street; the grounds of the New York Motor Boat Club on the Hudson River, west of the railroad tracks, extending from the north side of 146th Street, to the south side of 148th Street; the sub-basement of the premises of The Chemical National Bank at 270 Broadway. 2. In the Borough of The Bronx.-The Country Club, on Eastchester Bay; the grounds of Pelham Gun Club, foot of East Scofield street, |