HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE - 64 - 6/23/1958 - FIREWORKS AND EXPLOSIVESOrdinance No. 64
AN ORDINANCE pertaining to
fireworks and explosives
BE IT ORDAINED by the President and Board of Trustees of the
Village of Elk Grove Village, Cook County, Illinois:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to keep or to expose for sale any fireworks, firecrackers, torpedoes, bombs,
squibs, rockets, spinwheels, fire balloons, roman candles, sparklers,
detonating canes or ammunition thereby, or any substances or articles of
any explosive nature designed or intended to be used as fireworks within
the Village of Elk Grove Village.
Section 2. No fireworks, firecrackers, torpedoes, bombs, squibs,
rockets, spinwheels, fire balloons, roman candles or other thing containing
any substance of an explosive nature designed or intended to be used as
fireworks shall be discharged or set off within the Village , provided,
however, that a pyrotechnic display of fireworks may be given at any time
when such display is licensed by the Village of Elk Crove Village and when
given under the supervision of the licensee and the Chief of the Village
Police or the Village Fire Marshal.
Section 3. Any person wishing to secure a permit for a public
display of fireworks shall make application therefor to the President of the
Village, in writing, giving his name, place of residence and age. Such
written application shall also state the place at which it is proposed to give
such public display of fireworks, what experience the applicant has had, if
any, in the discharge of fireworks, whether or not the applicatst is in full
possession of all the usual and normal mental and physical faculties, and
such application shall be sworn to by the applicant before a notary public
or other officer authorized by law to administer oaths.
The President of the pillage upors receipt of such application shP.li.
refer the same to the thief of Police, attao shall have an in"ection mad;, �s
the premises at the location given it1 --aid ;?ppiicatiox a.s the location sriar,:r:
it is proposed to give such public displ. y of fi a iorlcs,. and if, is the jtidr—
meat of the Chief of Police, it viotald be hazardous to surrounding prop--rty
or dangerous to any person n -r pexsons to I,erxaiit such pta.%lic display of
firevrorks at such location, he shall approve such application and return
the same to the President.
If such application is so approved by the Chief of Police, and it
appears therefrom that the applicant is a man of legal age who has had some
experience in the discharge of firet+coaks and that said applicant is in ftaAl
possession of all the usual and normal mental and physical faculties, the
President shall issue a permit in writing to such applicant„ upon the 42,yncat
of a lsrainzt fee of Two ($Z.00) Dol'ars, giving "aim perzatissa.o n to Conduct
such public 2.isplay of fireworks, Stich -rmit shali designate the hinds
and quantities of fireworks to be used at such public display, and. n.o other
kinds and no greater quantities of firetvDxhs than is specified in said permit
shall be used in such public display.
It sb--dl be unlawful for any * % r. s, to to use, in conupctlon with mach
public display, any toy pistol, toy fgtan, told' r.asnaon, or any tap pistol, gtnn
or cannon, or any blanA cartridg.,C, :l" zu lj t,a-.bstFt%3Ce coeuioting �:ai !.'ti.tora '..
of potash and eaanlphur or de, -,Ace or so?.'-cs
by concuseion, or any Yi n'G'._'i. i,.:::. i:.:.t4 is ::'l32:'E! two in C+ae-qua--: ...
Ok an inch in eiiameter; C1? any lir �i or` f_--;C[�'2i.��:Y7.C^ Ce,�ct.C>'}7 a"v112€:'d1
coil .ens any explosives mora: poaa= i'Fa=A th1 i ra.1cia e as :+3ti3 %E > , and '..Ac.h.
and every permit -issued by .h:: C;f anis Village r
of this section shall expressly pr ovicl. i arvil direct that none of the firoarms
or fireworks prohibited in this soccion shall be used or displayed in con.xec io:
with. the public display for -which nisch permit is 'issued°
If, in connection with such public display, it is intended that more
than one person shall be engaged in the discharge of such fireworks, then
each and every one of the persons to be so engaged in the discharge of
such fireworks shall join in the application for such permit and said permit
shall run to all of them, and no persons other than those named in such
permit shall engage in the discharge of any fireworks in connection with
any such public display.
Section 4. Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the
provisions hereof shall be subject to a penalty of not less than Five
Dollars ($ 5.00
) nor more than Two Hundred
Dollars ($200.00
for each offense, and a separate offense shall be regarded as committed
each day during which such person shall continue such violation.
Section 5. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its passage, approval and publication according to law.
PASSED: this 23rd day of June , 1958.
APPROVED: this 23rd day of
ATTEST:
Margaret 0, Petrie
Village Clerk
June , 1968.
0harles A. Hodlmair
President
PUBLISHED: June 26. 1959
Elk Grove Herald
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