(a) 
Storage, sale and use prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to store, offer for sale, expose for sale, sell at retail, or use or explode any fireworks within the city limits. 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 it shall include blank cartridges, toy pistols, toy cannons, toy canes or toy guns in which explosives are used, the type of balloons which require fire underneath to propel the same, firecrackers, torpedos, skyrockets, roman candles, daygo bombs, sparklers, or other devices of like construction and any devices containing any explosive substance, except that the term “fireworks” shall not include auto flares, paper caps containing not in excess of an average of 0.25 of a grain of explosive content per cap manufactured in accordance with the interstate commerce regulations for packing and shipping as provided therein, and toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns or other devices for use of such caps, the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.
(b) 
Seizure of illegal fireworks.
The fire marshal shall seize, take, remove or cause to be removed at the expense of the owner all stocks of fireworks offered or exposed for sale, stored, or held in violation of this section.
(c) 
Exception for commercial fireworks displays.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the explosion and display of a commercial public fireworks display conducted under the direction and control of the city fire marshal or his delegates.
(1996 Code, sec. 5.401; Ordinance adopting Code)
No person, firm, company, association or corporation shall exhibit or have in his possession, with intent to give away or sell, or offer for sale, or sell, any squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo, grenade, or any other kind of fireworks within the corporate limits of the city. Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the sale of any such article or articles by wholesalers to each other.
(1996 Code, sec. 5.601)
No person, firm, company, association or corporation shall exhibit or have in his possession any squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo, grenade, or any other kind of fireworks within the corporate limits of the city. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any wholesaler possessing such articles with the sole intent to sell or transfer such articles to another wholesaler.
(1996 Code, sec. 5.602)
No person, firm, company, association or corporation shall fire, discharge, cast, throw or set off any squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo, grenade, or any other kind of fireworks within the corporate limits of the city.
(1996 Code, sec. 5.603)