TITLE 5
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY AND PUBLIC AREAS
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY AND PUBLIC AREAS
CHAPTER 1
FIREWORKS
FIREWORKS
SECTION:
5-1-1: Definitions
5-1-2: Dangerous Fireworks
5-1-3: Safe And Sane Fireworks
5-1-4: Dangerous Fireworks Permit
5-1-5: Safe And Sane Fireworks Permit
5-1-6: Application For Sale Of Safe And Sane Fireworks Permit
5-1-7: Application For Dangerous Fireworks Permit
5-1-8: Contents Of Application
5-1-9: Investigation
5-1-10: Council Powers
5-1-11: Validity; Term
5-1-12: Liability And Liability Insurance Required
5-1-13: Sale Period Restricted
5-1-14: Temporary Fireworks Stands
5-1-15: Sale From Permanent Structures
5-1-16: Records To Be Kept
5-1-17: Bond
5-1-18: Supervision By Fire Or Police Chief
5-1-19: Compliance; Violation
"Fireworks" shall include 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 material of any kind attached thereto or which require fire underneath to propel them), firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, rockets, Roman candles, 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 part 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 (0.25) grain of explosive compound per cap are used and such caps whether single, roll or tape type. Also exempted are signal devices or flares normally and commonly used by motor vehicles, railroads and law enforcement officers for current daily or emergency signaling purposes. (1982 Code)
"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 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 or made with other than iron wires;
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;
K. All other fireworks, explosive devices or combustible material used for display or amusement which are not enumerated in section 5-1-3 of this chapter. (1982 Code)
"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 stocks" not more than ten inches (10") in length or one-quarter inch (1/4") in diameter made of steel or iron wire and zuzuki 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. (1982 Code)
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