The Village Board of the Village of Islandia has found it necessary
for the general welfare of the community to regulate supervised public displays
of fireworks by the municipality, fair associations, amusement parks and other
organizations.
This chapter shall be known as the "Fireworks Displays Chapter of the
Code of the Village of Islandia."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
FIREWORKS
Pursuant to § 270.00 of the New York State Penal Law, shall
include any blank cartridge, blank cartridge pistol or toy cannon in which
explosives are used, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, roman candles, bombs,
sparklers or other combustible or explosive of like construction or any preparation
containing any explosive or inflammable compound or any tablets or other device
commonly used and sold as fireworks containing nitrates, chlorates, oxalates,
sulphides or lead, barium, antimony, arsenic, mercury, nitroglycerine, phosphorus
or any compound containing any of the same or other explosives or any substance
or combination of substances or article prepared for the purpose of producing
a visible or an audible effect of combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation
or other device containing any explosive substance. The provisions of this
definition, however, shall not be deemed to include flares of the type used
by railroads or warning lights commonly known as "red flares" or marine distress
signals of a type approved by the United States Coast Guard or toy pistols,
toy canes, toy guns or other devices in which paper caps containing 0.25 grains
or less of explosive compound are used, provided that they are so constructed
that the hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in place for use, and
toy pistol paper caps which contain less than 0.20 grains of explosive mixture,
the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.
Any fireworks that remain unfired after the display is concluded shall
be immediately disposed of in a way safe for the particular type of fireworks
remaining.
[Added 6-5-2003 by L.L. No. 3-2003]
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any indoor pyrotechnic displays are strictly
prohibited.