CHAPTER 4
FIREWORKS

SECTION:

7-4-1: Definitions

7-4-2: Dangerous Fireworks Permit

7-4-3: Safe And Sane Fireworks Permit

7-4-4: Application Required, Fees

7-4-5: Contents Of Application

7-4-6: Investigate Applicants

7-4-7: Issuance Of Permits, Conditions

7-4-8: Insurance Requirements

7-4-9: Premises Requirements For Sale Of Safe And Sane Fireworks

7-4-10: Temporary Fireworks Stands, Requirements

7-4-11: Records Kept

7-4-12: Compliance With State Laws Required

7-4-1: DEFINITIONS:

DANGEROUS FIREWORKS: "Dangerous fireworks" include any of the following:

   (A)   Firecrackers, cannon crackers, giant crackers, salutes, silver tube salutes, cherry bombs, mines, ground bombardment, grasshoppers and other explosive articles of similar nature;

   (B)   Blank cartridges;

   (C)   Skyrockets and rockets, including all similar devices and employing any combustible or explosive material and which rise in the air during discharge;

   (D)   Roman candles, including all devices which discharge balls of fire into the air;

   (E)   Chasers and whistles, including all devices which dart or travel about the surface of the ground during discharge;

   (F)   Snakes and hats containing bichloride of mercury;

   (G)   Sparklers more than ten inches (10") in length or one-quarter inch (1/4") in diameter;

   (H)   All articles for pyrotechnic display such as aerial shells, salutes, flash shells, sky battles, parachute shells, mines, Dago bombs and similar devices;

   (I)   All torpedoes which explode by means of friction, or which contain arsenic, and all other similar fireworks devices including cracker balls;

   (J)   Fire balloons or balloons of any type which have burning material of any kind attached thereto.

FIREWORKS: Blank cartridges, toy pistols, toy cannons, toy canes or toy guns in which explosives are used, fire balloons (balloons of a type which have burning materials of any kind attached thereto or which require fire underneath to propel them), firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, rockets, Roman candles, cone fountain wheels, Dago bombs, sparklers and other fireworks of like construction and any fireworks containing any combustible or explosive substance for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, deflagration, explosion or detonation.

Exempted from this definition are all toy pistols, toy cannons, toy canes and toy guns and similar devices such as party poppers or party favors in which paper caps containing not more than twenty five hundredths (.25) grain of explosive compound per cap are used and such caps when single, roll or tape type.

SAFE AND SANE FIREWORKS: "Safe and sane fireworks" include any of the following:

   (A)   Cone fountains with pyrotechnic composition not exceeding fifty grams (50 g) each;

   (B)   Cylindrical fountains, whether base, spike or handle, with pyrotechnic composition not exceeding seventy five grams (75 g) each and inside tube diameter not exceeding three-quarters inch (3/4");

   (C)   Sparklers and "dipped sticks" not more than ten inches (10") in length or one-quarter inch (1/4") in diameter and Suzuki and morning glories with pyrotechnic composition not exceeding four grams (4 g) each;

   (D)   Snakes which do not contain bichloride of mercury and pyrotechnic composition not exceeding two grams (2 g) each;

   (E)   Wheels with pyrotechnic composition not exceeding sixty (60) grains for each driver unit or two hundred forty (240) grains for each complete wheel. The inside tube diameter of driver unit shall not exceed one-half inch (1/2");

   (F)   Whistles, without report and which do not dart or travel about the ground during discharge with pyrotechnic composition not exceeding six grams (6 g) and containing no picric or gallic acid. (Ord. 761, 5-29-1967; amd. Ord. 779, 6-16-1969)

7-4-2: DANGEROUS FIREWORKS PERMIT:

It shall be unlawful for any person in the city to import, export, offer for sale, sell, possess, keep or store, or permit the keeping or storing of any "dangerous fireworks" for any use or purpose, except that a person holding a "dangerous fireworks permit" issued pursuant to the terms and conditions of this chapter may use "dangerous fireworks" for a safely supervised and conducted public display of fireworks. Said fireworks may be stored for a period not exceeding ten (10) days immediately preceding the date of said public display, provided the fireworks are to be used exclusively for the public display.

The police department and/or the fire department of the city shall have the right, power and authority to confiscate and destroy all "dangerous fireworks" being imported, exported, offered for sale, sold, possessed, kept or stored in violation of these presents. (Ord. 761, 5-29-1967)