(65 ILCS 5/11-8-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-8-4)
Sec. 11-8-4.
The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate
and prevent the storage of turpentine, tar, pitch, resin, hemp, cotton,
gunpowder, nitroglycerine, petroleum, or any of their products, and other
similar combustible or explosive materials; may regulate and prevent the
use of lights and combustible liquids in buildings, and the building of
bonfires; and may regulate and prevent the use of firecrackers, torpedoes,
and all sorts of fireworks provided that such regulation or prohibition is
consistent with the provisions of the following acts as such acts are
heretofore and hereafter amended: "The Fireworks Regulation Act of
Illinois" and "An Act to prohibit the sale, offering or exposing for sale
of fireworks; defining fireworks and to regulate the manner of using
fireworks, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of
the Act," approved July 1, 1941.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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