Fireworks,
as used in this article, means and include any firecrackers, cannon crackers, skyrockets, torpedoes, Roman candles, sparklers, squibs, fire balloons, star shells, or any other substance in whatever combination, by any designated name, intended for use in obtaining visible or audible pyrotechnic display, and shall include all articles or substances within the commonly accepted meaning of fireworks whether herein specially designated and defined or not.
Person
means and includes any natural person, association of persons, partnership, corporation, or agent or officer of a corporation, and shall also include all warehousemen, common and private carriers, bailees, trustees, receivers, executors and administrators.
(Ordinance 439, sec. 1, adopted 8/6/1968; 2005 Code, sec. 7-17)
It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, assemble, store, transport, receive, keep, sell, offer or have in his possession with intent to sell, use, discharge, cause to be discharged, ignite, detonate, fire or otherwise set in action any fireworks of any description.
(Ordinance 439, sec. 2, adopted 8/6/1968; 2005 Code, sec. 7-18)
This article shall not apply to signal flares and torpedoes of the type and kind commonly used by any railroad and which signal flares and torpedoes are received by and stored or transported by any such railroad for use in railroad operation, nor shall this article apply to any marine signal flare or rocket of the type and kind commonly carried by a vessel at sea for its own use and which signal flares or rockets are transported or received or stored for use only as ship’s stores, nor shall this article apply to signal flares or rockets for military or police use. Annual fireworks displays shall be included in this exception to this portion of the city code upon an affirmative vote of the city council when requested by the Chamber of Commerce or another local religious or civic group.
(2005 Code, sec. 7-19)
The presence of any fireworks within the jurisdiction of the city in violation of this article is hereby declared to be a common and public nuisance. The chief of police and/or any city police officer is directed and required to seize and cause to be safely destroyed any fireworks found within the jurisdiction in violation of this article. Notwithstanding any penal provision of this article, the city attorney is authorized to file suit on behalf of the city for injunctive relief as may be necessary to prevent unlawful storage, transportation, keeping or use of fireworks within the jurisdiction of the city, but it shall not be necessary to obtain any such injunctive relief as a prerequisite to such seizure and destruction.
(Ordinance 439, sec. 4, adopted 8/6/1968; 2005 Code, sec. 7-20)
(a) 
Any person who shall manufacture, assemble, store, transport, receive, keep, sell, offer for sale or have in his possession with intent to sell any fireworks shall be fined a sum not exceeding the maximum amount established by state law. If the fireworks be separately wrapped or packaged, the doing or omitting to do any act prohibited by this article shall be a separate offense as to each such separately wrapped or separately packaged fireworks. Each day that a violation of this article shall continue with respect to any package of fireworks shall constitute a separate offense.
(b) 
Any person who shall use, discharge, cause to be discharged, ignite, detonate, fire or otherwise set in action any fireworks shall be fined shall be fined in a sum not exceeding the maximum amount established by state law. Any parent or guardian of any minor child below the age of fourteen (14) who permits or allows such minor child to use, discharge, ignite, detonate, fire or otherwise set in action any fireworks shall be fined a sum not exceeding the maximum amount established by state law.
(2005 Code, sec. 7-21)
This article shall be applicable and in force throughout the territory of the city within its corporate limits.
(Ordinance 439, sec. 6, adopted 8/6/1968; 2005 Code, sec. 7-22)