MARVIN MANDEL,

Governor

2495

and they are hereby repealed and reenacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 38A — Fires and Investigations

15.

(a) The term "fireworks" as used in this subtitle
means firecrackers, squibs, rockets, [sparklers,] Roman
candles, torpedoes, bombs, grenades, fire balloons,
signal lights, and any combustible or explosive
composition, or any substance or combination of
substances, or article prepared for the purpose of
producing a visible or an audible effect by combustion,
explosion, deflagration, or detonation. The term
"fireworks" does not include toy pistols, toy canes, toy
guns, or other devices in which paper caps containing
twenty—five hundredths grains or less of explosive
compound are used, provided they are so constructed that
the hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in
place for use; or toy pistol paper caps which contain
less than twenty—hundredths grains of explosive mixture;
OR SPARKLERS CONTAINING NO CHLORATES OR PERCHLORATES.

(c) "Class C fireworks" means common fireworks,
designed primarily to produce visible effects by
combustion. Some small devices designed to produce an
audible effect are included, but only when containing
less than two grains of pyrotechnic composition. Class
C fireworks include the following:

(1)   Roman candles, not exceeding ten balls, with
total pyrotechnic composition not exceeding twenty grams
in weight and inside tube diameter not exceeding 3/8
inch.

(2)    Sky rockets with sticks, total pyrotechnic
composition not exceeding twenty grams in weight, and
inside tube diameter not exceeding 1/2 inch.

(3)    Helicopter type rockets, total pyrotechnic
composition not exceeding twenty grams in weight, and
inside tube diameter not exceeding 1/2 inch.

(4)    Cylindrical fountains with total pyrotechnic
composition not exceeding seventy-five grams in weight;
and inside tube diameter not exceeding 3/4 inch.

(5)     Cone fountains with total pyrotechnic
composition not exceeding fifty grams each in weight.

(6)   Wheels, with total pyrotechnic composition not
exceeding sixty grams for each driver unit or two hundred
forty grams for each wheel, and with inside tube diameter
of driver units not exceeding 1/2 inch.

(7)    Illuminating torches and colored fire in any
form with total pyrotechnic composition not exceeding one