Illegal sale or use of certain fire extinguishers.

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PA Code › Title 18 › Chapter 73 › Section 7304

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(a) Use prohibited.--It shall be unlawful for any building used for private, public or parochial school purposes, or any bus being used for the transportation of school children, to be equipped with or to have available for use a fire extinguisher containing carbon tetrachloride, and any person having immediate control over such buildings or buses, who permits them to be so equipped or to have such fire extinguishers available for use therein, is guilty of a summary offense.

(b) Sale prohibited.--Whoever sells any portable fire extinguisher containing carbon tetrachloride, chlorobromomethane, or methyl bromide, knowing it is intended for use in a single or multiple family dwelling or a hospital, rest-home, school, theater or other building generally open to the public, is guilty of a summary offense.

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Illegal sale or use of certain fire extinguishers. · 18 Pa.C.S. § 7304 | Frix