(A) The sale, discharge, firing or use of fire crackers, rockets, torpedoes, Roman candles, fire balloons, fireworks, pistols, canes, cannons or other appliances using blank cartridges, or using caps, containing chlorate of potash mixture or any combustible or explosive composition or any substance or, combination of substances designed or intended to produce visible or audible pyrotechnic effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation is hereby prohibited; provided that, nothing herein shall prevent municipal displays of fireworks with the permission of the Mayor and the Chief of the Fire Department and provided also that nothing shall prohibit the sale of pistols, revolvers or other firearms in compliance with the laws of the state.
(1967 Code, § 13-7)
(B) No person engaged in the business of displaying or exhibiting fireworks shall by himself, or his agents, discharge, fire off, explode or display fireworks at any public exhibition or exhibitions thereof unless he has on file, with the City Clerk, a bond in the penal sum of not less than $1,000 for such to cover the losses, damages or injuries, that might ensue to person or property by reason of the public exhibition or exhibitions.
(1967 Code, § 13-8)
(C) The Mayor shall issue licenses for fireworks displays.
(1967 Code, § 10-5) Penalty, see § 94.99
Cross-reference:
Statutory reference:
Bond required for display of fireworks, see Conn. Gen. Stat. § 29-358
Fireworks generally, see Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 29-356 through 29-366