Remember: Fire works are ILLEGAL inside the City Limits - Be Smart

<B><font color=RED>Fireworks are illegal in Shawnee City Limits to include Shawnee Twin Lakes

Violators are subject to fine and confiscation of fireworks. Confiscated fireworks will be destroyed as contraband
City Code</font></b>

<B>Sec. 13-136. - Definitions.</b>
Pyrotechnics means any sparkler, squib, rocket, firecracker, Roman candle, fire balloon, signal light, railroad track torpedo, flashlight composition, firework or other device or composition used to obtain visible or audible pyrotechnic display.

<b>Sec. 13-137. - Possession, manufacturing, selling or transporting.</b>
(a) No person shall have, keep, store, use, manufacture, sell, handle or transport any pyrotechnics;
(b) The bureau of fire prevention may, upon due application, issue a permit to a properly qualified person for giving pyrotechnic display of fireworks in the public parks or other open places. Such permits shall impose such restrictions as, in the opinion of the director of the bureau of fire prevention, may be necessary to properly safeguard life and property in each case.

<b>Sec. 13-138. - Discharge; firing; sale.</b>
(a) The discharge, firing or use of any firecrackers, rockets, torpedoes, Roman candles or other fireworks or substances designed and intended for pyrotechnic display and of pistols, canes, cannons or other appliances using blank cartridges or caps containing chlorate of potash mixture is prohibited.
(b) The sale of fireworks at retail is prohibited. The chief of police may, at his discretion, remove, at the owners expense, all stocks of fireworks or other combustibles exposed for sale.

<B>Be smart - have a safe holiday and dont break the law!</b>