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breakers), detonators and other detonating agents, smokeless powder
and any chemical compound or any mechanical mixture containing
any oxidizing and combustible units, or other ingredients in such pro-
portions, quantities, or packing that ignition by fire, friction, con-
cussion, percussion or detonation of any part thereof may and is in-
tended to cause an explosion, but shall not include fixed ammunition
for small arms, firecrackers or matches.

(b)    "Persons" includes any natural person, partnership, associa-
tion or corporation.

(c)    "Manufacturer" means any person who is engaged in the
manufacture of explosives or who otherwise produces any explosive.

(d)    "Dealer" means any person, not a manufacturer, engaged in
the business of buying or selling explosives.

[(e) "Commissioner" means the Insurance Commissioner of the
State of Maryland.]

[f] (e) "Local Licensing authority" shall mean the sheriff of the
county or chief of police of the county or of the community in which
the applicant resides.

[22] 27. License.

No person shall manufacture, possess or deal in explosives unless
he has obtained a license therefor pursuant to the provisions of Sec-
tion [336] 23.

[23] 28. Applications for licenses.

(a)   Application for a license to manufacture shall be made to the
[Commissioner] State Fire Marshal in such form as the [Commis-
sioner] State Fire Marshal shall prescribe and furnish, and shall
state, among other things: (1) The name and address of the appli-
cant, (2) the reason for desiring to manufacture explosives, (3) his
citizenship, if the applicant is an individual, (4) if the applicant is
a partnership, the names and addresses of the partners and their cit-
izenship, and (5) if the applicant is an association or corporation,
the names and addresses of the officers and directors thereof and
their citizenship. The [Commissioner] State Fire Marshal shall issue
the license applied for unless he finds that either the applicant, or
the officers, agents or employees of the applicant, is not sufficiently
experienced in the manufacture of explosives, lacks suitable facilities
therefor, has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, or
is disloyal to the United States.

(b)    Application for license to engage in the business of dealing in
explosives shall be made to the [Commissioner] State Fire Marshal
in such form as the [Commissioner] State Fire Marshal shall pre-
scribe and furnish, and shall state, among other things: (1) The name
and address of the applicant, (2) the reason for desiring to engage in
the business of dealing in explosives, (3) citizenship, if an individual
applicant, (4) if a partnership, the names and addresses of the part-
ners and their citizenship, and (5) if an association or corporation,
the names and addresses of the officers and directors thereof and
their citizenship. The [Commissioner] State Fire Marshal shall issue
the license applied for unless he finds that either the applicant or
the officers, agents or employees of the applicant, is not sufficiently