No person shall exhibit or have in his possession, with intent to give away or sell or offer for sale or sell, within the city, any squib, rocket, cracker, torpedo, grenade, gun or other combustible fireworks of any kind in the city; provided, however, this section shall not apply to the sale of any such articles by wholesalers to each other or to the sale of any such 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 95, sec. 2, adopted 8/14/40; 1972 Code, sec. 18-11)