The term "fireworks" shall mean and include any combustible or explosive composition,
or any substance or combination of substances, or article prepared for the purpose
of producing a visible or an audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration
or detonation, and shall include blank cartridges, toy pistols, toy cannons, toy canes
or toy guns in which explosives are used, the type of unmanned balloons which require
fire underneath to propel the same, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, bottle rockets,
Roman candles, dago bombs, sparklers or other fireworks of like construction and any
fireworks containing any explosive or flammable compound, or any tablets or other
device containing any explosive substance; except the term "fireworks" shall not include
model rockets and model rocket engines designed, sold and used for the purpose of
propelling recoverable aero models and shall not include toy pistols, toy canes, toy
guns or other devices in which paper and/or plastic caps manufactured in accordance
with the United States Department of Transportation regulations for packing and shipping
of toy paper and/or plastic caps are used and toy paper and/or plastic caps manufactured
as provided therein, the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times. Each
package containing toy paper and/or plastic caps offered for retail sale shall be
labeled to indicate the maximum explosive content per cap. Nothing contained in this
article shall prohibit the sale or use of blank cartridges for theatrical purposes,
signal purposes, military or police purposes. Nothing contained in this article shall
prohibit any resident wholesaler, dealer or jobber to sell at wholesale such fireworks
as are not herein prohibited or the sale of any kind of fireworks provided the same
are to be shipped to a location outside the city for sale. Nothing contained in this
article shall prohibit the sale or offering for sale of firearms or ammunition therefor.
(Code 1976, § 12-55)
Cross reference
Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.
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