Fireworks means and includes any combustible or explosive composition or any substance or combination of substances or devices 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; firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman candles, sparklers or other devices of like construction; and any devices containing any explosive or flammable compound or any tablet or other device containing an explosive substance, except that the term “fireworks” shall not include any auto flares, paper caps containing not in excess of an average of twenty-five hundredths (0.25) of a grain of explosive content per cap, 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.
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No person shall cast, throw or fire any fireworks of any kind within the city limits. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess, store, give away, use or explode any fireworks within the city limits.
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No person shall manufacture, assemble, store, exhibit or have in his possession, with intent to give away or sell or offer for sale or sell within the city limits, any fireworks of any kind. The fire marshal or his designate shall seize, take, remove or cause to be removed, at the expense of the owners, all stocks of fireworks offered or exposed for sale, stored or held in violation hereof.
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Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit the use of fireworks by railroads or other transportation agencies for signal purposes or illumination or the sale or use of blank cartridges for a show or theater or for signal or ceremonial purposes in athletics or sports or for use by military organizations or to the sale, storage or use of flashlight composition by photographers or dealers in photographic supplies or prevent any public or private demonstration or display of fireworks of any kind if conducted under the supervision of the fire marshal after application is made and a written permit is issued by the fire marshal for such demonstration or display. Such permit shall not be granted until written application therefor has been filed with the fire marshal nor unless such demonstration or display shall be of such character and so located, discharged or fired as, in the opinion of the fire marshal, shall not be hazardous to property or endanger the public safety.
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The fire marshal or his designate shall have the authority to seize, take, remove or cause to be removed, at the expense of the owner or person in charge, fireworks offered or exposed for sale, stored or held in violation hereof. The fire marshal shall dispose of in any safe way any such fireworks confiscated.
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