IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE repealing sections 5612., 5627., and 5628., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to fireworks, and enacting, in lieu thereof, three new sections relating to the same subject.
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ORDINANCE NO. 4839, April 18, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits, County Legislator
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WHEREAS, certain revisions to the code provisions regarding the distribution, sale, and use of fireworks in unincorporated Jackson County have been proposed; and,
WHEREAS, such revisions are in the best interests of the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of Jackson County; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Enacting Clause. Sections 5612., 5627., and 5628., Jackson County, 1984, is hereby repealed, to be known as sections 5612., 5627., and 5628., to read as follows:
5612. Fireworks.
Fireworks means and includes any combustible or explosive composition, or any substance or combination of substances or articles prepared for the purposes of producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration of detonation.
5612.1. Examples.
The term "fireworks" includes but is not limited to: Blank cartridges; toy pistols, toy cannons, or toy guns in which explosives are used; balloons which require fire underneath to propel them; fire crackers; torpedoes; sky rockets; roman candles; [dago bombs;] colored flares; colored cone fire; fire and torches; wheels; colored mines and shells; aerial bombs; missiles; and other devices, articles or tablets containing any explosives or flammable compound.
5612.2. Exclusions.
The term "fireworks" shall not include toy pistols, toy cannons, toy guns or other devices in which paper caps are used containing not in excess of an average of twenty-five hundredths of a grain of explosive compound per cap.
5627. Exception, Seasonal Fourth of July Sales.
The retail sale of fireworks at tempo...
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