5-1-1: DEFINITIONS:
"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)