(A) The Board of County Commissioners hereby declares that the county is suffering from extreme or serious drought conditions and high fire hazards represent a significant immediate threat to the peace, safety, health and welfare of Valencia County.
(B) For purposes of this proclamation, the word FIREWORKS means any device intended to produce a visible or audible effect by combustion, deflagration or detonation. The term FIREWORKS as used in this subchapter includes but is not limited to the definition of FIREWORKS provided in NMSA 1978, § 60-2C-2K (1999).
(C) Pursuant to NMSA 1978, § 60-2C-8.1 (F)(2)(a)(1999), the Board of County Commissioners does hereby allow the sale but limits the use of cone fountains, crackling devices, cylindrical fountains, flitter sparklers, ground spinners, illuminating torches, toy smoke devices, wheels and mines fireworks within the unincorporated areas of the county to areas that are paved or barren or that have a readily accessible source of water for use by the homeowner or the general public.
(D) Pursuant to NMSA 1978, § 60-2c-8.1 (F)(1)(1999) the following types of fireworks are banned from sale and use within the unincorporated areas of the county: stick-type rockets, helicopters and aerial spinners, missile-type rockets, ground audible devices, firecrackers and display fireworks.
(E) Pursuant to NMSA 1978, § 60-2C-8.1 (F)(2)(b)(1999), the Board of County Commissioners gives itself the power to and does hereby ban the use
of all fireworks within wild lands in its jurisdiction. (WILDLANDS means any lands covered wholly or in part by timber, brush or native grass).
(F) Except as permitted by this subchapter, the sale and use of all other fireworks of any kind or description are banned within the unincorporated areas of the county.
(Ord. 2014-03, passed 6-11-2014; Am. Ord. 2022-04, passed 6-13-2022)