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.

5.40.020 Fireworks Prohibited. Exceptions.

No person shall store, offer for sale, expose for sale, sell at retail, use, explode, discharge, or possess any fireworks except for supervised public exhibitions or displays; provided, however, that such public exhibitions or displays shall be conducted only in accordance with 5.40.050 through 5.40.100 and in accordance with any rules and regulations issued by the fire chief, who is designated as the Code Official, for review and approval as the Code Official, for the area included within the permit application boundaries of the City for compliance with O.P.M.C. 16.120. Provided further, however, that the provisions and prohibitions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit the proper and lawful storage of fireworks, by an actual wholesaler, for sale outside the City limits of Overland Park, Kansas.

(History: Ord. FW-2250 §2, 2001; FW-930 §1, 77; FW-912 §2, 76; FW-654 §2, 72; FW-223, A,B,C)

Effective on: 1/1/1901