For the purposes of this subchapter,
FIREWORKS means and includes any explosive composition or any substance or combinations of substances or article prepared for the purpose of producing an audible or visible effect by explosion, combustion, deflagration or detonation and shall include blank cartridges, toy cannons in which explosives are used, the type of balloons which require fire underneath to propel the same, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman candles, bombs or other fireworks of like construction and any fireworks containing any explosive compound, or any tablet or other device containing any explosive compound, or any tablet or other device containing any explosive substance, or containing combustible substances producing visual effects; provided, however, that the term shall not include snake or glow worm pellets; smoke devices; trick noisemakers known as “party poppers”, “booby traps”, “snappers”, “trickmatches”, “cigarette loads” and “auto burglar alarms”; sparklers, toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns or other like devices in which paper or plastic caps containing twenty-five hundredths grains or less of explosive compound are used, providing they are so constructed that the hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in place for the explosion, and toy pistol paper or plastic caps which contain less than twenty-five hundredths grains of explosive mixture, the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.
(‘82 Code, § 8.24.010)
Statutory reference:
Fireworks Regulation Act, ILCS Ch. 425, Act 30, §§ 1 et seq.
Pyrotechnic Use Act, ILCS Ch. 425, Act 35, §§ 1 et seq.