Legal Documents of Jefferson City

"Fireworks" means and includes any combustible or explosive composition, or any substance or combination of substances, or device prepared for the purpose of producing a viable or an audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration, or detonation, and shall include blank cartridges, toy pistols, toy cannons, toy canes, or toy guns in which explosives are used, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman candles, Daygo bombs, sparklers, or other devices of like construction and any devices containing any explosive or flammable compound, or any tablet or other device containing an explosive substance, except that the term "fireworks" shall not include any auto flares, paper cups containing not in excess of an average of twenty-five hundredths (.25) of a grain of explosive content per cap, and toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns for use of such caps, the sale and use of which shall be permitted. (as added by Ord. #2003-10, Nov. 2003)