SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 992
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Reported from the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation, Parks and Natural Resources, February 23, 2004, with recommendation that the Senate Committee Substitute do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Senate Committee Substitute adopted March 16, 2004.
Taken up March 16, 2004. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3156S.03P
AN ACT
To repeal section 578.154, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the possession and transportation of anhydrous ammonia, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Section 578.154, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 578.154, to read as follows:
578.154. 1. A person commits the crime of possession of anhydrous ammonia in a nonapproved container if he or she possesses any quantity of anhydrous ammonia in [any container other than a tank truck, tank trailer, rail tank car, bulk storage tank, field (nurse) tank or field applicator or any container approved for anhydrous ammonia by the department of agriculture or the United States Department of Transportation] a cylinder or other portable container that was not designed, fabricated, tested, constructed, marked and placarded in accordance with the United States Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials regulations contained in CFR 49 Parts 100 to 185, revised as of October 1, 2002, which are herein incorporated by reference, and approved for the storage and transportation of anhydrous ammonia, or any container that is not a tank truck, tank trailer, rail tank car, bulk storage tank, field (nurse) tank or field applicator.
2. Cylinder and other portable container valves and other fittings, or hoses attached thereto, used in anhydrous ammonia service shall be constructed of material resistant to anhydrous ammonia and shall not be constructed of brass, copper, silver, zinc, or other material subject to attack by ammonia. Each cylinder utilized for the storage and transportation of anhydrous ammonia shall be labeled, in a conspicuous location, with the words "ANHYDROUS AMMONIA" or "CAUTION: ANHYDROUS AMMONIA" and the UN number 1005 (UN 1005).
3. A violation of this section is a class D felony.