N.Y. GBS Law § 322-B

§ 322-b. Explosives and combustibles. 1. A person who makes or keeps\ngunpowder, nitro-glycerine, or any other explosive or combustible\nmaterial, within a city or village, or carries such materials through\nthe streets thereof, in a quantity or manner prohibited by law or by\nordinance of the city or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n 2. A person who manufactures gunpowder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine,\nliquid or compressed air or gases, except acetylene gas and other gases\nused for illuminating purposes, naptha, gasoline, benzine or any\nexplosive articles or compounds, or manufactures ammunition, fireworks\nor other articles of which such substances are component parts in a\ncellar, room, or apartment of a tenement or dwelling-house or any\nbuilding occupied in whole or in part by persons or families for living\npurposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n 3. And a person who, by the careless, negligent, or unauthorized use\nor management of gunpowder or other explosive substances, injures or\noccasions the injury of the person or property of another, is guilty of\na misdemeanor.\n 4. Any person or persons who shall knowingly present, attempt to\npresent, or cause to be presented or offered for shipment to any\nrailroad, steamboat, steamship, express or other company engaged as\ncommon carrier of passengers or freight, dynamite, nitro-glycerine,\npowder or other explosives dangerous to life or limb, without revealing\nthe true nature of said explosives or substance so offered or attempted\nto be offered to the company or carrier to which it shall be presented,\nshall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n 5. Any person who, while engaged in the unauthorized distillation of\nany liquid containing methyl or ethyl alcohol, causes injuries or\noccasions the injury of the person or property of another by reason of\nsuch distillation is guilty of a misdemeanor.\n Nothing in this section contained shall be construed to prohibit or\nforbid the manufacture and sale of sodawater, seltzer-water, ginger ale,\ncarbonic or mineral water or the charging with liquid carbonic acid gas\nof such waters or ordinary waters, or of beer, wines, ales or other malt\nand vinous beverages in such cellar, room or apartment of a tenement or\ndwelling-house, or any building occupied in whole or in part by persons\nor families for living purposes.\n