Report Title:

Fireworks; Permissible Uses

 

Description:

Prohibits the purchase or use of consumer fireworks on the 4th of July in counties with populations over 500,000.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1142

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to fireworks.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 132D-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§132D‑3  Permissible uses of consumer fireworks[.]; and prohibitions.  (a)  Consumer fireworks may be set off, ignited, discharged, or otherwise caused to explode within the State only:

     (1)  From 9:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve to 1:00 a.m. on New Year's Day; from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Chinese New Year's Day; and from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on the Fourth of July; or

     (2)  From 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. as allowed by permit pursuant to section 132D-10 if the proposed cultural use is to occur at any time other than during the periods prescribed in paragraph (1);

provided that the purchase of not more than five thousand individual consumer fireworks commonly known as firecrackers shall be allowed under each permit.

     (b)  It shall be unlawful to sell or use non-aerial common fireworks on the Fourth of July in counties with populations over 500,000."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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