SECTION:
8-5-1: Fireworks
8-5-1-1: Definitions
8-5-1-2: Permit Required
8-5-1-3: Application For Permit
8-5-1-4: Permit Fee And Contents
8-5-1-5: Investigation Of Applicant
8-5-1-6: Approval Of Application
8-5-1-7: Term Of Permit; Nontransferability
8-5-1-8: Insurance Requirements
8-5-1-9: Hours Of Operation
8-5-1-10: Temporary And Permanent Fireworks Structures
8-5-1-11: Compliance With Provisions; Penalty
8-5-2: Explosives
8-5-2-1: Application Of Provisions
8-5-2-2: Manufacture And Storage Prohibited
8-5-2-3: Transportation Of Explosives
When used in this section 8-5-1, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein:
DANGEROUS FIREWORKS: Includes any of the following:
A. Firecrackers, cannon crackers, giant crackers, salutes, silver tube salutes, cherry bombs, mines, ground bombardments, 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.
FIREWORKS 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 materials of any kind attached thereto or which require fire underneath to propel them), firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, rockets, Roman candles, fountains, wheels, Dago bombs, sparklers, and other fireworks of a like construction and any fireworks containing any combustible or explosive substance for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect of combustion, deflagration, explosion or detonation.
Exempted from this definition 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 one-hundredths (.25) grain of explosive compound per cap are used and such caps, whether single, roll or tape type.
SAFE FIREWORKS Includes any of the following:
A. Cone fountains with pyrotechnic composition not exceeding fifty (50) grams each.
B. Cylindrical fountains, whether base, spike or handle, with pyrotechnic composition not exceeding seventy five (75) grams each and inside tube diameter not exceeding three-quarters inch (3/4").
C. Sparklers and "dipped sticks" not more than ten inches (10") in length or one-quarter inch (1/4") in diameter made on steel or iron wire and suzuke and morning glories with pyrotechnic composition not exceeding four (4) grams each.
D. Snakes which do not contain bichloride or mercury and pyrotechnic composition not exceeding two (2) grams each.
E. Wheels with pyrotechnic composition not exceeding sixty (60) grams for each driver unit or two hundred forty (240) grams 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 (6) grams and containing no picric or gallic acid. (Ord. 289, 4-9-68)
A. Dangerous Fireworks: It shall be unlawful for any person in the City to import, export, offer for sale, sell, possess, keep or store or permit the keeping or storing of any dangerous fireworks for any use or purpose; except, that a person holding a dangerous fireworks permit issued pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Section may use dangerous fireworks for a safely supervised and conducted public display of fireworks, and said fireworks may be stored for a period not exceeding four (4) days immediately preceding the date of said public display, provided the fireworks are to be used exclusively for the public display.
B. Safe Fireworks: It shall be unlawful for any person not having a valid safe fireworks permit issued pursuant to terms and conditions set forth in this Section, to import, export, possess for the purpose of sale, offer for sale or sell any safe fireworks for any use or purpose. (Ord. 289, 4-9-68)
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