For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
DISPLAY RETAILER. Any person licensed with the State of Colorado, pursuant to C.R.S.§ 24- 33.5-2004, and given the authority to store and/or sell fireworks.
FIREWORKS. Any article, device or substance prepared for the primary purpose of producing a visual or auditory sensation by combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation which meets the description of fireworks as set forth in the United States Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials Regulations. FIREWORKS does not include toy caps which do not contain more than twenty five hundredths of a grain of explosive compound per cap, highway flares, railroad fuses, ship distress signals, smoke candles and other emergency signal devices, or educational rockets, toy propellant device type engines used in such rockets when such rockets are of non-metallic construction and utilize replaceable engines or model cartridges containing less than two ounces of propellant and when such engines or model cartridges designed to be ignited by electrical means, or fireworks which are used in testing or research by a licensed explosive laboratory.
PERMISSIBLE FIREWORKS. The following items designed primarily to produce visual or audible effects by combustion, including certain devices designed to produce audible or visual effects, except that no device or component shall, upon functioning, project or disburse any metal, glass or brittle plastic fragments:
(1) Cylindrical fountains, total pyrotechnic composition not to exceed 75 grams each in weight. The inside diameter shall not exceed three-quarters of one inch;
(2) Cone fountains, total pyrotechnic composition not to exceed 50 grams each in weight;
(3) Wheels, total pyrotechnic composition not to exceed 60 grams for each driver unit or 240 grams for each complete wheel. The inside tube diameter of driver units shall not exceed one-half of one inch;
(4) Ground spinner, a small device containing not more than twenty grams of pyrotechnic composition venting out of an orifice usually in the side of the tube, similar in operation to a wheel, but intended to be placed flat on the ground;
(5) Illuminating torches and colored fire in any form, total pyrotechnic composition not to exceed 100 grams each in weight;
(6) Dipped sticks and sparklers, the total pyrotechnic composition of which does not exceed 100 grams, of which the composition of any chlorate or perchlorate shall not exceed five grams;
(7) Explosive auto alarms, as described in 49 C.F.R. § 173.100;
(8) Toy propellant devices and toy smoke devices, as described in 49 C.F.R. § 173.100;
(9) Cigarette loads, as described in 49 C.F.R. § 173.100;
(10) Trick matches, consisting of book matches, strike-any-where matches, or strike-on-box matches, as described in 49 C.F.R. § 173.100;
(11) Trick noise makers, as described in 49 C.F.R. § 173.100;
(12) Snake or glow worm, pressed pellets of pyrotechnic composition that produce a large snake-like ash upon burning; and
(13) Novelties consisting of two or more devices enumerated in this section.
PERSON. An individual, partnership, firm, company, business, association, corporation or governmental entity.
(Prior Code, § 412.1) (Ord. 107, passed 8-3-1939; Ord. 474, passed 6-27-2002)