For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CONSUMER FIREWORKS. Those fireworks that must comply with the construction, chemical composition and labeling regulations of the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, as set forth in 16 C.F.R. parts 1500 and 1507, and classified as fireworks UN0336 or UN0337 by the United States Department of Transportation under 49 C.F.R. § 172.101. CONSUMER FIREWORKS shall not include snake or glow worm pellets; smoke devices; trick noisemakers known as “party poppers,” “booby traps,” “snappers,” “trick matches,” “cigarette loads” and “auto burglar alarms”; sparklers; toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns or other devices in which paper or plastic caps containing twenty-five hundredths grains or less of explosive compound are used, provided 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 that contain less than twenty hundredths grains of explosive mixture; the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.
(425 ILCS 35/1)