Section 1011 - Test Areas(a) Experimental rockets unlimited shall not be launched within this State from any site other than test areas approved for such purpose by the fire authority having jurisdiction.(b) These test areas shall meet the following minimum requirements: (1) Test areas shall consist of a launching site and an impact range.(2) The launching site is that area immediately surrounding the launching devices, including positions to protect all personnel.(3) The impact range is that area over which rockets may travel by design or accident and upon which they fall. Its length should be not less than the maximum calculated ideal ballistic range of any rocket to be fired from its launching site and extends as the radius of a circular sector 90 from the launching site apex into the prevailing wind.(c) Test areas should include no dwellings or structures other than those provided for operating and nonoperating personnel protection and loading rockets.(d) Operating personnel protection shall consist of a bunker, blockhouse or similar protection designed to withstand shrapnel and mass impact equal to the potential created by the heaviest rocket intended to be fired, and falling from its zenith or exploding at any point. This bunker when located not less than 50 feet distant from the launching device shall afford minimum protection equal to a 2-foot wide slit trench not less than 5 feet deep and parapet observation ports with protection equal to a double thickness of sand bags. Overhead protection should consist of substantial structural materials, and these materials shall be covered to afford protection equivalent to that of a double layer of filled sand bags. Non-operating personnel minimum protection when located not less than 250 feet distant from the launching device shall consist of construction at least equal to the slit trench shelter described above.(e) Rocket loading facilities shall be housed in a lightly constructed and covered structure located not less than 100 feet distant from any other structure including any launching device. Within this State, all fuel or propellant compounding or loading of experimental rockets unlimited shall be performed by licensed pyrotechnic operators or by experienced persons directly supervised by these pyrotechnic operators.
Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 19, § 1011
1. Repealer filed 6-26-91 as an emergency; operative 6-26-91 (Register 91, No. 48). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 10-24-91 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Emergency language repealed by operation of law. Repealer of section 1011 filed and renumbering and amendment of former section 1018 to section 1011 filed 4-14-92; operative 5-14-92 (Register 92, No. 21). Note: Authority cited: Section 12552, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Section 12552, Health and Safety Code.
1. Repealer filed 6-26-91 as an emergency; operative 6-26-91 (Register 91, No. 48). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 10-24-91 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Emergency language repealed by operation of law. Repealer of section 1011 filed and renumbering and amendment of former section 1018 to section 1011 filed 4-14-92; operative 5-14-92 (Register 92, No. 21).