Legal Documents of Maryville

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, or corporation to store for resale or sell in the corporate limits of Maryville, Tennessee, any pyrotechnics, commonly known as fireworks, except those fireworks classified as permissible fireworks in Tennessee Code Annotated, § 68-104-108. The storage for resale and retail sale of fireworks shall be subject to the following restrictions:

1. The storage for resale and retail sale of fireworks is permitted only on lots zoned to allow retail sales located adjoining U.S. Highway 321 or U.S. Highway 411 or State Route 33 in the City of Maryville.
2. Any person, firm, partnership, or corporation desiring to store and sell retail fireworks within the corporate limits of the City of Maryville shall make application for a permit to do so on forms provided for that purpose by the city recorder. The application shall be accompanied by a non-refundable fee of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each location for applicants who have registered their business with the Tennessee Department of Revenue listing the City of Maryville as the principal situs address for the purpose of collection and distribution of location sales tax. Additionally, applicants who do not register with the Tennessee Department of Revenue may otherwise obtain a transient vendor license pursuant to the provision of Maryville Municipal Code title 9, chapter 5 and purchase a city fireworks permit in the amount of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) for each location. No permit shall be issued for any person under eighteen years of age. All permits shall expire as of midnight on July 4th. The application shall include the name of the person making the application; the firm, partnership or corporation he represents; the business address of both the applicant and the partnership, firm or corporation he represents; the address and description of the premises where the storage and sale of fireworks is contemplated; sales tax numbers and any other information the city recorder deems pertinent to aid in the investigation of the application. The city recorder shall refer the applicant to the fire chief or his designee who shall interview the applicant if desired and inspect the premises on which the storage and sale of fireworks is contemplated and make whatever additional investigation of the applicant or premises he deems appropriate to ensure that the premises and its operation by the applicant will not constitute a fire, explosion, or similar safety hazard. If the fire chief approves the application, the city recorder shall issue a permit. The permit shall not be transferable to any other person, firm, partnership, corporation or premise.
3. No fireworks shall be sold from an automobile or any other vehicle. No fireworks shall be sold through a drive-thru window. Fireworks must not be thrown into any vehicle when lit nor thrown from any vehicle at any time.
4. Placing, storing, locating or displaying fireworks in any window where the sun may shine through glass onto to the fireworks is prohibited.
5. The presence of lighted cigars, cigarettes or pipes within ten feet (10') of where fireworks are offered for sale or are stored is declared unlawful and prohibited.
6. All places where fireworks are stored or sold, there must be posted the words "Fireworks. No Smoking" in letters not less than four inches (4") high.
7. No fireworks shall be sold at retail at any location where paints, oils or varnishes are for sale or use unless kept in the original unbroken containers. Fireworks may not be sold anywhere where any resin, turpentine, gasoline or other flammable substance is used, stored or sold.
8. It shall be unlawful to offer for retail sale or to sell any fireworks to children under eighteen (18) years of age or to any intoxicated person.
9. It shall be unlawful to explode or ignite fireworks within six hundred feet (600') of any church, hospital, or public school. It shall be unlawful to explode or ignite fireworks within two hundred feet (200') of where fireworks are stored, sold or offered for sale.
10. Fireworks may be sold exclusively from June 25 - July 4 each year. (Ord. #2024-10, May 2024)

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