(A) AERIAL LUMINARY DEVICES, FLYING SKY LANTERNS, SKY CANDLE, WISH LANTERNS,
and the like, shall be defined as any homemade or manufactured balloon or lantern designed to float in the air, often used to celebrate weddings and other special events, typically constructed of flame-retardant paper or rice paper, that has an open flame, fuel cell or other heating device to heat air as a lifting mechanism thus causing the balloon or lantern to lift into the atmosphere, tethered or untethered, leaving the height and distance it travels to be determined by existing atmospheric conditions. Such devices shall be deemed an aerial luminary device.
(B) All aerial luminary devices shall be deemed a fire hazard.
(C) It shall be unlawful to buy, sell, use, possess, ignite or cause to ignite any such aerial luminary device.
(D) Exception. This section shall not apply to signal flares for emergency use.
(Ord. 13-8, passed 5-13-13) Penalty, see § 10.99