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 Norman
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 9. FIRE PREVENTION
 Article II. FIREWORKS

§ 9-201. Definitions.  

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  • The following words and phrases used in this article, shall for the purposes of this article, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except where the context otherwise requires:

    (1)

    Consumer : Any individual who acquires, possesses, or discharges fireworks for personal, family or household purposes. This term shall include any personnel except any retailer, distributor, manufacturer or wholesaler as defined herein.

    (2)

    Consumer fireworks : Any small firework device suitable for use by the public designed primarily to produce visible and/or audible effects by combustion and which must comply with the construction, chemical composition, and labeling regulations of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, as set forth in Title 16, Code of Regulations, Parts 1500 and 1507. This term shall further include, but not be limited to, devices in which comparable small amounts of explosives are used, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, roman candles, sparklers or other devices of like construction and any devices containing any explosive substance.

    (3)

    Display fireworks : Fireworks devices intended primarily for commercial and/or exhibition displays and designed to produce visible and/or audible effects by combustion, deflagration or detonation. This term includes, but is not limited to, salutes containing more than one hundred thirty (130) milligrams (2 grains) of explosive composition, aerial shells containing more than forty (40) grams of pyrotechnic compositions and other exhibition display pieces which exceed the limits of explosive materials for classification as consumer fireworks. This term also includes fused setpieces containing components which together exceed 50 milligrams of salute powder. Display fireworks are classified as fireworks UN0333, UN0334 or UN0335 by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

    (4)

    Distributor : Any person who sells fireworks and novelties to other distributors, wholesalers or retailers for resale or provides them as part of a pyrotechnic display service in the State of Oklahoma.

    (5)

    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 includes consumer fireworks and display fireworks but shall not include any novelty as defined herein.

    (6)

    Manufacturer : Any person engaged in the making, compounding or constructing of fireworks.

    (7)

    Novelty : A device containing small amounts of pyrotechnic and/or explosive composition. Such devices produce limited visible or audible effects. These items must be approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) or have been deregulated by DOT. This term shall include paper caps containing not in excess of an average of twenty-five one-hundredths of a grain of explosive content per cap manufacture in accordance with DOT regulations for packing and shipping as provided therein, and designed for use in toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns or other similar devices utilizing such caps. This term shall also include by not be limited to toy trick noisemakers as defined by DOT and toy smoke devices.

    (8)

    Person : Any corporation, association, partnership, organization or one or more individuals.

    (9)

    Public fireworks display : A professionally supervised discharge of display fireworks primarily for commercial or entertainment exhibition.

    (10)

    Retailer : Any person who purchases fireworks and novelties for resale to consumers.

    (11)

    Wholesaler : Any person who purchases fireworks and novelties for resale to retailers.

(Ord. No. 0-1718-17, § 2)