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<br />Minnesota Statutes 2004, 624.20 <br /> <br />Page 1 of2 <br /> <br />.'~lnn'$Ota <br />~omce ofthe;Revisor -of .Statu.tes <br /> <br />House I Senate I Joint Departments and Commissions I Bill Search and Status I <br />Minnesota Statutes 2004, 624.20 <br /> <br />Legislature Home I Links to the World I Help I A( <br /> <br />Statutes, Laws, and Rules <br /> <br />Copyright 2004 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota. <br /> <br />Minnesota statutes 2004, Table of Chapters <br /> <br />Table of contents for Chapter 624 <br /> <br />624.20 Fireworks. <br /> <br />subdivision 1. Regu~ation. (a) As used in sections 624.20 to <br />624.25, <br />the term "fireworks" means any substance or combination of <br />substances or article prepared for the purpose of producing a <br />visible or an audible effect by combustion, explosion, <br />deflagration, or detonation, and includes blank cartridges, toy <br />cannons, and toy canes in which explosives are used, the type of <br />balloons which require fire underneath to propel them, <br />firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman candles, daygo bombs, <br />sparklers other than those specified in paragraph (c), or other <br />fireworks of like construction, and any fireworks containing any <br />explosive or inflammable compound, or any tablets or other <br />device containing any explosive substance and commonly used as <br />fireworks. <br /> <br />(b) The term "fireworks" shall not include toy pistols, toy <br />guns, in which paper caps containing 25/100 grains or less of <br />explosive compound are used and toy pistol caps which contain <br />less than 20/100 grains of explosive mixture. <br /> <br />(c) The ter.m also does not include wire or wood sparklers <br />of not more than 100 grams of mixture per item, other sparkling <br />items which are nonexplosive and nonaerial and contain 75 grams <br />or less of chemical mixture per tube or a total of 200 grams or <br />less for multiple tubes, snakes and glow worms, smoke devices, <br />or trick noisemakers which include paper streamers, party <br />poppers, string poppers, snappers, and drop pops, each <br />consisting of not more than twenty-five hundredths grains of <br />explosive mixture. The use of items listed in this paragraph is <br />not permitted on public property. This paragraph does not <br />authorize the purchase of items listed in it by persons younger <br />than 18 years of age. The age of a purchaser of items listed in <br />this paragraph must be verified by photographic identification. <br /> <br />(d) A local unit of government may impose an annual license <br />fee for the retail sale of items authorized under paragraph <br />(c). The annual license fee of each retail seller that is in <br />the business of selling only the items authorized under <br />paragraph (c) may not exceed $350, and the annual license of <br />each other retail seller may not exceed $100. A local unit of <br />government may not: <br /> <br />(1) impose any fee or charge, other than the fee authorized <br /> <br />http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/binlgetpub.php?pubtype=STAT_CHAP _ SEC&year=curr... 6/1/2005 <br /> <br />1.3'/ <br />