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Editor's Note: Ordinance No. 2023-249, adopted 5-15-2023, repealed and replaced Art. IX . Former Art. IX pertained to similar subject matter and derived from prior code §§ 12.5-1 and 12.5-2 and Ord. 463, adopted in 1991.
[Ord. No. 2023-249, 5-15-2023]
For the purposes of this Article, the following definitions shall apply:
AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL
Includes any person who holds a permit, license or other lawful authorization issued by the Town, the Front Range Fire Rescue Fire Protection District or the Loveland Fire Rescue Authority or any other authorized governmental entity to possess, display, sell, use, ignite or discharge fireworks in the Town.
FIREWORKS
(a) 
Includes any article, device or substance prepared for the primary purpose of producing a visual or auditory sensation by combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation, including, without limitation, the following articles and devices commonly known and used as fireworks: blank cartridges, toy pistols, toy cannons, toy canes, toy guns, in which explosives are used; fire balloons (balloons of the type which have a burning material of any kind attached thereto or which require fire underneath to propel them); firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, rockets, roman candles, day-glow bombs, torches or other fireworks of like construction and any fireworks containing any explosive or flammable compound, any tablets or other device containing any explosive substance; and
(b) 
Does not include toy pistols, toy cannons or toy guns in which paper caps containing not more than twenty-five one-hundredths (.25) of a grain of explosive compound per cap are used whether such caps are of single roll or tape type, sparklers, trick matches, cigarette loads, trick noise makers, toy smoke devices, novelty auto alarms, highway flares, railway fuses, smoke candles or other emergency signal devices.
[Ord. No. 2023-249, 5-15-2023]
(a) 
No person, other than authorized personnel, shall possess, display, sell, use, ignite or discharge any fireworks in the Town.
(b) 
No person, other than authorized personnel, shall permit the possession, display, sale, use, ignition or discharge of any fireworks on such person's property. A person's property includes property that is owned, leased or rented by such person or property that such person has a lawful right to occupy.
[Ord. No. 2023-249, 5-15-2023]
(a) 
The court shall not preclude evidence regarding violations of this Article based solely on the fact that the firework was destroyed by its use, ignition or discharge.
(b) 
To the extent this Article conflicts with the provisions of the International Fire Code, as adopted by the Town, this Article shall control.