It is hereby prohibited to possess, use, manufacture, cause to be manufactured, import, sell or have for sale, offer, deliver to any person, or dispose of any pyrotechnic contrivance or product, it being understood by pyrotechnics the art, science or industry of making fireworks, skyrockets, firecrackers, string of firecrackers, [chasers], Roman candles, and any other similar contrivances, whether aerial or explosives such as, for example but not limited to, mortar, batteries, strings of firecrackers, carpets, big bomb, saturn missile, little rockets, flash cracker, artillery shell, pulling firecrackers, thunder bomb firecracker, and whistling moon traveler, among others, in which any chemical compound or mechanical mixture containing any oxidizing and combustible units or other ingredients is used, or any substance that by itself or mixed with another may be inflammable, no matter the amounts or proportions these chemical compounds or mechanical mixtures may contain, or the form or design of those products or contrivances that, on being ignited by fire, friction, concussion, percussion or detonator, any part of the compound or mixture may cause a sudden generation of gases m or design of those products or contrivances that, on being ignited by fire, friction, concussion, percussion or detonator, any part of the compound or mixture may cause a sudden generation of gases capable of producing sound or fire or both. History —June 25, 1963, No. 83, p. 252, § 1; Aug. 8, 2006, No. 153, § 1.
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