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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="10-101" title_number="10" title_name="Fireworks and Sparklers" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“1.3 G fireworks” means special fireworks designed primarily to produce visible or audible effects by combustion or explosion.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“1.3 G fireworks” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>toy torpedoes, railway torpedoes, firecrackers and salutes that do not qualify as 1.4 G fireworks, exhibition display pieces, illuminating projectiles, incendiary projectiles, and incendiary grenades;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>smoke projectiles or bombs containing expelling charges but without bursting charges;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>flash powders in inner units not exceeding 2 ounces each, flash sheets in interior packages, and flash powder or spreader cartridges containing an amount not exceeding 72 grains of flash powder each; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>flash cartridges consisting of a paper cartridge shell, small arms primer, and flash composition, not exceeding 180 grains, all assembled in one piece.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“1.4 G fireworks” means common fireworks designed primarily to produce visible effects by combustion.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“1.4 G fireworks” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>small devices containing less than 2 grains of pyrotechnic composition designed to produce an audible effect;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Roman candles, not exceeding 10 balls, that have a total pyrotechnic composition not exceeding 20 grams and inside tube diameter not exceeding 3/8 inch;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>sky rockets with sticks, that have a total pyrotechnic composition not exceeding 20 grams and an inside tube diameter not exceeding 1/2 inch;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>helicopter–type rockets that have a total pyrotechnic composition not exceeding 20 grams and an inside tube diameter not exceeding 1/2 inch;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>wheels that have a total pyrotechnic composition not exceeding 60 grams for each driver unit or 240 grams for each wheel and an inside tube diameter of driver units not exceeding 1/2 inch;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>illuminating torches and colored fire in any form that have a total pyrotechnic composition not exceeding 100 grams each;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>dipped sticks that have a pyrotechnic composition containing any perchlorate not exceeding 5 grams;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>mines or shells in which the mortar is an integral part, that have a total pyrotechnic composition not exceeding 40 grams;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>firecrackers or salutes with casings that have a total pyrotechnic composition not exceeding 2 grains each and external dimensions not exceeding 1 1/2 inches in length or 1/4 inch in diameter; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>novelties that consist of two or more 1.4 G fireworks.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Explosive composition” means a mixture or substance that, when ignited, may cause such a generation of highly heated gases that the resulting gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on contiguous objects.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Finishing and assembling building” means a structure in which fireworks are assembled and packed but are not mixed or pressed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Fireworks” means combustible, implosive or explosive compositions, substances, combinations of substances, or articles that are prepared to produce a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, implosion, deflagration, or detonation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Fireworks” includes 1.3 G fireworks, 1.4 G fireworks, firecrackers, squibs, rockets, Roman candles, fire balloons, and signal lights.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Fireworks” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns, or other devices that use paper caps that contain 0.25 grains or less of explosive composition if the devices are constructed so that a hand cannot touch the cap when the cap is in place for use;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>toy pistol paper caps that contain less than 0.20 grains of explosive composition;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>sparklers that do not contain chlorates or perchlorates;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>ground–based sparkling devices that are nonaerial and nonexplosive, and are labeled in accordance with the requirements of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>paper wrapped snappers that contain less than 0.03 grains of explosive composition; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>ash–producing pellets known as “snakes” that do not contain mercury and are not regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Fireworks plant” means land and any building on the land used in connection with the manufacture, packaging, repackaging, or processing of fireworks.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Fireworks plant” includes a storage building used in connection with plant operation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Mixing building” means a building primarily used to mix and blend pyrotechnic composition other than wet sparkler mixes.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Press building” means a building used primarily for pressing or loading pyrotechnic composition into tubes or containers.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Pyrotechnic composition” means a chemical mixture that on burning and without explosion produces visible or brilliant displays, bright lights, or whistles.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Storage building” means a structure in which finished fireworks or fireworks in any state of processing are stored, but in which processing or manufacturing is not performed.</text>
  </level>
</section>
