Full Text of HB5126 93rd General Assembly
HB5126 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB5126
Introduced 02/05/04, by Marlow H. Colvin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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425 ILCS 30/2 |
from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 102 |
425 ILCS 35/1 |
from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 127 |
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Amends the Fireworks Regulation Act of Illinois and the Fireworks Use Act. Provides that for purposes of each Act, the term "fireworks" does not include hand-held or ground-based sparklers of not more than 100 grams of pyrotechnic mixture per item (instead of simply "sparklers"). Permits the storage and possession (in addition to the sale and use) of items that are not "fireworks". Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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HB5126 |
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LRB093 19818 RXD 45561 b |
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| AN ACT concerning fireworks regulation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Fireworks Regulation Act of Illinois is | 5 |
| amended by changing
Section 2 as follows:
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| (425 ILCS 30/2)
(from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 102)
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| Sec. 2. The following words and phrases, when used in this | 8 |
| Act, shall
for the purpose of this Act have the following | 9 |
| definition and meaning:
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| (a) The term fireworks shall mean and include any explosive
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| composition or any substance or combination of substances, or | 12 |
| article
prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or | 13 |
| audible effect of a
temporary exhibitional nature by explosion, | 14 |
| combustion, deflagration or
detonation, and shall include | 15 |
| blank cartridges, toy cannons in which
explosives are used, the | 16 |
| type of balloons which require fire underneath
to propel the | 17 |
| same, firecrackers, torpedoes, sky rockets, Roman candles,
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| bombs or other fireworks of like construction and any
fireworks | 19 |
| containing any explosive compound; or any tablets or other
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| device containing any explosive substance, or containing | 21 |
| combustible
substances producing visual effects. The term | 22 |
| "fireworks" shall not
include snake or glow worm pellets; smoke | 23 |
| devices; hand-held or ground-based
sparklers of not more than | 24 |
| 100 grams of pyrotechnic mixture per item
sparklers ; trick | 25 |
| noisemakers
known as "party poppers", "booby traps", | 26 |
| "snappers", "trick matches",
"cigarette
loads" and "auto | 27 |
| burglar alarms"; toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns, or
other | 28 |
| devices in which
paper or plastic caps containing twenty-five | 29 |
| hundredths grains or less
of explosive compound are used, | 30 |
| provided they are so constructed that
the hand cannot come in | 31 |
| contact with the cap when in place for the
explosion; and toy | 32 |
| pistol paper or plastic caps which contain
less than |
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| twenty-five hundredths grains of explosive mixture;
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| storage, possession, sale , and use of
which shall be permitted | 3 |
| at all times.
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| (b) The term "fireworks plant" shall mean and include all | 5 |
| lands,
with buildings thereon, used in connection with the | 6 |
| manufacture or
processing of fireworks, as well as storehouses | 7 |
| located thereon for the
storage of finished fireworks.
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| (c) The term "fireworks factory building" shall mean any | 9 |
| building or
other structure in which the manufacture of | 10 |
| fireworks, or in which any
processing involving fireworks is | 11 |
| carried on.
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| (d) The term "magazine" shall mean any building or other | 13 |
| structure
used for the storage of explosive raw materials used | 14 |
| in the manufacture
of fireworks.
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| (e) The term "Office" shall mean the Office of the State | 16 |
| Fire Marshal.
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| (Source: P.A. 83-474.)
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| Section 10. The Fireworks Use Act is amended by changing
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| Section 1 as follows:
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| (425 ILCS 35/1)
(from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 127)
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| Sec. 1. The term fireworks shall mean and include any | 22 |
| explosive
composition, or any substance or combination of | 23 |
| substances, or article
prepared for the purpose of producing a | 24 |
| visible or audible effect of a
temporary exhibitional nature by | 25 |
| explosion, combustion, deflagration or
detonation, and shall | 26 |
| include blank cartridges, toy cannons, in which
explosives are | 27 |
| used, the type of balloons which require fire underneath to
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| propel the same, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman | 29 |
| candles, bombs,
or other fireworks of like construction and any | 30 |
| fireworks
containing any explosive compound, or any tablets or | 31 |
| other device
containing any explosive substance, or containing | 32 |
| combustible substances
producing visual effects: provided, | 33 |
| however, that the term "fireworks"
shall not include snake or | 34 |
| glow worm pellets; smoke devices; trick noisemakers
known as |
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| "party poppers", "booby traps", "snappers", "trick matches",
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| "cigarette
loads" and "auto burglar alarms"; hand-held or | 3 |
| ground-based sparklers of not
more than 100 grams of | 4 |
| pyrotechnic mixture per item
sparklers ; toy
pistols, toy
canes, | 5 |
| toy guns, or other devices in
which paper or plastic caps | 6 |
| containing twenty-five hundredths grains or
less of explosive | 7 |
| compound are used, providing they are so constructed that
the | 8 |
| hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in place for the
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| explosion; and toy pistol paper or plastic caps which contain | 10 |
| less than
twenty hundredths grains of explosive mixture; the | 11 |
| storage, possession,
sale , and use of which
shall be permitted | 12 |
| at all times.
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| (Source: P.A. 83-474.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 15 |
| becoming law.
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