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r: <br />• <br />Table 1: Examples of Legal and Illegal Fireworks <br />EXAMPLES OF FIREWORKS THAT ARE <br />NOW LEGAL TO SELL, POSSESS AND USE <br />BY THE PUBLIC ON OR AFTER <br />APRIL 30, 2002 AS PERMITTED BY <br />MINNESOTA STATUTE 624.20 (C): EXAMPLES OF FIREWORKS THAT <br />CONTINUE TO BE ILLEGAL TO SELL <br />POSSESS AND USE, EXCEPT AS <br />PERMITTED UNDER MINNESOTA <br />STATUTE 624.20 <br />Wire or wood sparklers of not more than 100 <br />grams of mixture per item • Any fireworks that are explosive <br /> ~ Any fireworks that are aerial <br />Other sparkling items which are <br />nonexplosive and nonaerial and contain 75 <br /> <br />grams or less of chemical mixture per tube or a • Firecrackers an size <br />( y ) <br />total of 200 grams or less for multiple tubes Ladyfingers <br />and include: Sky rockets <br />• Cylindrical fountain Upon ignition, a shower of • Bottle rockets <br />colored sparks or smoke and sometimes a . Missile type rockets <br />whistling effect is produced. • Helicopters, aerial spinners, planes, <br />• Cone Fountain The effect is the same as that of UFOS <br />a cylindrical fountain. When more than 1 cone is <br />mounted on a common base, total pyrotechnic • Roman Candles <br />composition may not exceed 200 grams . Mines or shells (heavy cardboard or <br />• Illuminating Torch paper tube(s) attached to a base - <br />• Wheel -Pyrotechnic device intended to be upon ignition stars, balls or reports are <br />attached to a post or tree by means of a nail or propelled into the air) <br />string. Upon ignition, the wheel revolves, <br />producing a shower of color and sparks and, • Chasers <br />sometimes, a whistling effect • Parachutes <br />• Ground Spinner -Small device venting out an . 1.3G Display (special or class B) <br />orifice usually on the side of the tube. Similar in <br />Fireworks <br />operation to a wheel but intended to be placed <br />flat on the ground and ignited. The rapidly • Aerial shells <br />spinning device produces a shower of sparks . Theatrical pyrotechnics (see Minn. <br />and color. Stat. 624.20 to 624.25) <br />• Flitter Sparkler -Narrow paper tube attached to <br />a stick or wire that produces color and sparks <br />upon ignition. The paper at one end of the tube <br />is ignited to make the device function. <br />• Flash/Strobe - Emit a bright light Basically, any fireworks listed above are <br /> still not legal for public sale, possession or <br />Novelty items such as snakes and glow use, except with a permit and by a certified <br />worms, smoke devices, or trick noisemakers operator according to Minnesota Statute <br />which include paper streamers, party poppers, 624.20. (i.e. these fireworks are still not <br />string poppers, snappers, and drop pops, each legal unless a permit has been issued by <br />consisting of not more than twenty-five the local jurisdiction and they are used by <br />hundredths grains of explosive mixture. a state certified operator) <br />• State Fire Marshal Fireworks Fact Sheet April 30, 2002 Page 2 of 6 <br />www.fire.state.mn.us Questions: firecode@state.mn.us <br />~y <br />