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600 Fireworks CITY OF YELM ORDINANCE N0.600 AN ORDINANCE repealing and replacing City of Yelm Ordinance No. 213, ~8 (1~, (1) and (2) and Yelm Municipal Code Chapter Sections 5.32.010 and 5.32.020 and establishing definitions, restrictions, and requirements for the sale, possession and discharge of fireworks. SECTIONS 5.32.010 ADOPTION OF STATE PROVISIONS 5.32.020 DEFINITIONS 5.32.030 SALE, POSSESSION AND DISCHARGE OF FIlZEWORKS 5.32.040 PERMITS 5.32.050 UNLAWFUL TRANSFER 5.32.060 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OR DISCHARGE 5.32.070 UNLAWFUL SALE OR TRANSFER SECTION 1. Sections 5.32.010 and 5.32.020 of the Yelm Municipal code are hereby repealed and replaced with the following: 5.32.010 ADOPTION OF STATE PROVISIONS RCW Chapter 70.77.111 through 70.77.580, the State Fireworks Law, relating to the manufacture, importation, possession, sale, discharge, display or transportation of fireworks is hereby adopted by reference as though fully set forth in this chapter. 5.32.020 DEFINITIONS A. "Fireworks" means any composition device, in a finished state, containing any combustible or explosive substance for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration, or detonation, and classified as common or special fireworks B. "Special Fireworks" means any fireworks designed primarily for exhibition display by producing visible or audible effects. The term includes (1) fireworks commonly known as skyrockets, missile-type rockets, firecrackers, salutes, and chasers; and (2) fireworks not classified as common fireworks. ORD. 600 gg\1VIS\I,EGAL.97\600FIRE.DOC Page 1 C. "Common Fireworks" means any fireworks designed primarily to produce visual or audible effects by combustion. 1. The term includes; a. Ground and hand-held sparkling devices, including items commonly known as dipped sticks, sparklers, cylindrical fountains, cone fountains, illuminating torches, wheels, ground spinners, and flitter sparklers; b. Smoke devices; c. Fireworks commonly known as helicopters, aerials, spinners, roman candles, mines and shells; d. Class C explosives classified on January 1, 1984 as common fireworks by the United States Department of Transportation. 2. The term does not include fireworks commonly known as firecrackers, salutes, chasers, skyrockets and missile-type rockets. D. "Retailer" includes any person who, at a fixed location or place of business, sells, transfers, or gives common fireworks to a consumer or user. E. "Wholesaler" includes any person who sells fireworks to a retailer or any other person for resale and any person who sells special fireworks to public display licensees. 5.32.030 SALE POSSESSION AND DISCHARGE OF FIlZEWORKS A. Toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns or other similar devices in which paper caps containing not more than 25/100 grain of explosive compound for each cap may be sold at all times. B. Common fireworks may be purchased, or sold within the City limits from 9:00 a.m. on the 28th of June to 12:00 noon on the 6th of July of each year, and from 9:00 a.m. on the twenty-seventh of December to eleven o'clock p.m. on the thirty-first of December of each year. C. Common fireworks may be used or discharged only between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. on the 28th day of June to the sixth of July, and on July 4th between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight, and from 6:00 p.m. on December 31st until 1:00 a.m. on January 1st of the subsequent year. D. The sale, use and possession of special fireworks or any other fireworks not described in sections A and B shall be unlawful unless sold, possessed or used in accordance with the provisions of RCW 70.77. ORD. 600 AB\MS\LEGAL.97\600FIRE.DOC Page 2 5.32.040 PERNIITS A Any person, firm or corporation selling fireworks within the city, either as a wholesale dealer or as a retail dealer, shall be required as a condition of such operation to secure from the city clerk's office a permit for such sale of fireworks. The fee for such permits shall be effective for the full calendar year in which the permit is secured. The city clerk is directed to issue such permits to those dealers complying with the terms of this chapter and the RCW 70.77 upon application and payment of the permit fee. B. The original and annual license fee shall be $30.00 for each separate retailer or retail outlet. C. A person who sells fireworks without a permit is guilty of a misdemeanor. 5.32.050 UNLAWFUL TRANSFER A. Any person who knowingly sells, transfers or agrees to sell or transfer within the City any special fireworks to any person who is not a fireworks licensee as provided for in RCW 70.77 shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. 5.32.060 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OR DISCHARGE It shall be unlawful for any person within the City of Yelm to: A. Possess fireworks which are not authorized by the terms of this chapter or authorized to be in the possession of a licensee pursuant to RCW 70.77. Possession of less than one pound of said unauthorized fireworks, exclusive of external packaging, shall constitute a misdemeanor and possession of one pound or more of said non-authorized fireworks, exclusive of external packaging, shall constitute a gross misdemeanor. For purposes of this subsection, the term "external packaging: means any materials that are not an integral part of the operative unit of the fireworks. B. Discharge or use common fireworks within the City except between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. on the 28th day of June to the sixth of July, and on July 4th between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight, and from 6:00 p.m. on December 31st until 1:00 a.m. on January 1st of the subsequent year shall constitute a misdemeanor. C. Discharge or otherwise use fireworks in a reckless manner which creates a substantial risk of death or serious physical injury to another person or damage to the property of another shall constitute a gross misdemeanor. D. To allow rubbish to accumulate in any premises in which fireworks are stored or sold or to permit a fire nuisance to exist on such premises shall constitute a misdemeanor. ORD. 600 AB\MS\LEGAL.97\600FIRE.DOC Page 3 5.32.070 UNLAWFUL SALE OR TRANSFER It is unlawful for any person to sell or transfer any common fireworks to a consumer or user other than at a fixed place of business of a retailer for which a license and permit have been issued. Violation of the terms of this section shall constitute a gross misdemeanor. SECTION 2. Repealer. Sections 5.32.010 and 5.32.020 of the Yelm Municipal Code are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. Severability Clause. If any provisions of this ordinance or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected. SECTION 4. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect from and after June 25, 1998, a date not less than one year following passage and approval. W Kat n M. Wolf, ayor Attest: Agn P. Bernick, City Clerk-Treasurer PASSED and APPROVED: June 25, 1997 PUBLISHED: Nisqually Valley News, July 3, 1997 ORD. 600 pB\MS\LEGAL.97\600FIRE.DOC Page 4