No person, firm, company, corporation or association shall exhibit or have in his possession, with intent to give away or sell or offer for sale, any squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo, grenade, cap or other combustible fireworks of any kind in the city, provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the sale of any such article or articles at wholesale to merchants conducting business entirely without the city, or to the sale by wholesalers for private or public demonstration as hereinafter provided.
(Ordinance 1079, sec. 2, adopted 12/16/80; 1996 Code, sec. 5.402)