Title 5 - Business Licenses and Regulations

5.40 Fireworks1

  1. 1.
    For statutory authority of the State Fire Marshal to regulate use and handling of fireworks, see K.S.A. 31-207; for administrative regulations issued pursuant to that authority, see Kansas Administrative Regulations 22-6.

5.40.010 Definitions.

Fireworks. Any composition or device for the purpose of producing a visible or an audible effect for entertainment purposes by combustion, deflagration, or detonation that meets the definition of 1.4G or 1.3G fireworks as set forth herein. Fireworks does not include devices which contain quantities of less than twenty-five hundredths or less of a grain of explosives such as contained in paper caps used in toy pistols, toy guns or other novelty items. Each package containing toy paper caps offered for retail sale shall be labeled to indicate the maximum explosive content per cap.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Fireworks, 1.4G (Formerly known as Class C, Common Fireworks). Small fireworks devices containing restricted amounts of pyrotechnic composition designed primarily to produce visible or audible effects by combustion. Such 1.4G Fireworks shall include any firework that explodes, produces a report, shoots a projectile into the air, or produces an open flame including rockets, missiles, helicopters, sparklers, reloadable tube devices, comets, mines and shells, fire crackers, and roman candles. Such 1.4G fireworks which comply with the construction, chemical composition, and labeling regulations of theDOTn for Fireworks, UN 0336, and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission as set forth in CPSC 16 CFR: Parts 1500 and 1507, are not explosive materials for the purpose of this code.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Fireworks, 1.3G (Formerly known as Class B, Special Fireworks). Large fireworks devices, which are explosive materials, intended for use in fireworks displays and designed to produce audible or visible effects by combustion, deflagration, or detonation. Such 1.3G fireworks include, but are not limited to, firecrackers containing more than 130 milligrams (2 grains) of explosive composition, aerial shells containing more than 40 grams of pyrotechnic composition, and other display pieces, which exceed the limits for classification as 1.4G fireworks. Such 1.3G fireworks, are also described as Fireworks, UN0335 by the DOTn

(History: Ord. FW-2250 §1, 2001; FW-912 §1, 76; FW-654 §1, 72; FW-223; FW-105)

Effective on: 1/1/1901