§ 15-11. Fireworks.

It shall be unlawful for any person to buy or have or own or possess or shoot or discharge within the city any combustible or explosive composition or any substance or combination of substances or article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation, including blank cartridges, balloons requiring fire underneath to propel them, firecrackers, torpedoes, sky rockets, Roman candles, bombs, and other combustibles and explosives of like construction, or articles containing any explosive or flammable compound, and tablets and other devices containing an explosive substance; provided, however, that the prohibition herein relating to the foregoing described fireworks shall not include toy pistol paper caps in which the explosive content does not average more than .25 grain of explosive mixture per paper cap, and toy pistols, toy guns, toy canes, toy cannons or other devices using such paper caps, nor to ammunition consumed by weapons used for sporting and hunting purposes.

(Ord. No. 65-9, § 1, 12-9-65)