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.

5.40.120 Exemptions from Chapter.

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting any resident wholesaler, dealer or jobber from selling at wholesale such fireworks as are not herein prohibited, or the sale of any kind of fireworks; provided, that the same are to be shipped out of the City, nor shall this chapter be construed as prohibiting the manufacture, storage, sale or use of signals, fuses or fireworks necessary for the safe operation of railroads, trucks, aircraft or other instrumentalities of transportation or of blank cartridges and blank pistols for a show or theater or for signal or ceremonial purposes in athletics or sports or for use by military organizations. Nothing in this ordinance shall be deemed or construed to prevent, prohibit or regulate the use of explosives of any nature, or any substance or device used in connection with such explosives, in any building or construction work or activities within the City as provided in 5.36.

(History: Ord. FW-654 §12, 72; FW-223)

Effective on: 1/1/1901