The Village Board of the Village of Monticello 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 Monticello."
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
grain 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 grain 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.