§ 14-42. Fireworks.

(a)

Definitions.

(1)

The term "fireworks" shall mean and include any combustible or explosive composition, or any other substance or combination of substances, or, except as hereinafter provided, any article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or an audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation, and shall include blank cartridges and toy cannons in which explosives are used, the type of unmanned balloons which require fire underneath to propel the same, firecrackers, torpedoes, sky rockets, Roman candles, dago bombs, cherry bombs, ash cans and any fireworks containing any explosives or flammable compound or any tablets or other device containing any explosive substance or combustible material.

(2)

The term "fireworks" shall not include sparklers, toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns or other devices in which paper caps containing twenty-five-hundredths grain or less of explosive compound are used, providing they are so constructed that the hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in place for the explosion, and toy pistol paper caps which contain less than twenty-hundredths grain of explosive mixture, the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.

(b)

Sale or display or fireworks. Except as specifically accepted in this section, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership or corporation to offer or advertise for sale or display for sale, sale at retail, or use or explode any fireworks as defined in this section except as provided pursuant to the issuance of permits that is allowed in Chapter 791 of the laws of the State of Florida.

(c)

Exceptions.

(1)

The prohibition of this section shall not apply to the sale of fireworks by wholesalers to each other, or to the sale of fireworks to merchants conducting business entirely without the city, or to the sale by wholesalers for public demonstrations as allowed pursuant to Chapter 791 of Florida Statutes.

(2)

The prohibition of this section shall not apply to the use of explosives for the building of roads and other structures within the city as long as the contractor first applies to the police department of the City of Lauderhill, and after setting forth to them a description of his intended use of explosives, receives a permit to use same. Copy of permit, if obtained, will be forwarded to the fire department of the City of Lauderhill.

(d)

Penalties. Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of violating any provision of this section shall be fined in the amount not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) and shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not to exceed thirty (30) days, or both. (Ord. No. 77-101, §§ 1—4, 2-2-77)

Editor's note

At the editor's discretion Ord. No. 77-101, nonamendatory of the Code, has been included as § 14-42.