(A) Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
1.3G FIREWORKS. Those fireworks used for professional outdoor displays and classified as fireworks UN0333, UN0334, or UN0335 by the United States Department of Transportation under 49 CFR 172.101.
CONSUMER FIREWORKS.
(a) 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 CFR parts 1500 and 1507, and classified as fireworks UN0336 or UN0337 by the United States Department of Transportation under 49 CFR 172.101.
(b) CONSUMER FIREWORKS shall not include snake or glowworm pellets; smoke devices; trick noisemakers known as “party poppers”, “booby traps”, “snappers”, “trick matches”, “
DISPLAY FIREWORKS. 1.3G or special effects fireworks or as further defined in the Pyrotechnic Distributor and Operator Licensing Act (ILCS Ch. 225, Act 227, §§ 1 et seq.).
(B) Fireworks prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, keep, expose for sale, loan or give away any 1.3G fireworks, consumer fireworks, or displace fireworks, anywhere in the village.
(C) Possession of fireworks. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess or to discharge anywhere in the village any 1.3G fireworks, consumer fireworks, or displace fireworks; provided, however, that the Village Police Chief may issue a permit for the discharge of such fireworks and for pyrotechnical displays.
(D) Permitted fireworks: the sale and use of snake or glowworm 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 grain 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 grain of explosive mixture, shall be permitted at all times.
(Ord. 1235, passed 11-26-24)