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90_SB0126
425 ILCS 35/1 from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 127
Amends the Fireworks Use Act. Includes sparklers as
"fireworks" for purposes of the Act. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Fireworks Use Act by changing Section
2 1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Fireworks Use Act is amended by changing
6 Section 1 as follows:
7 (425 ILCS 35/1) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 127)
8 Sec. 1. The term fireworks shall mean and include any
9 explosive composition, or any substance or combination of
10 substances, or article prepared for the purpose of producing
11 a visible or audible effect of a temporary exhibitional
12 nature by explosion, combustion, deflagration or detonation,
13 and shall include blank cartridges, toy cannons, in which
14 explosives are used, the type of balloons which require fire
15 underneath to propel the same, firecrackers, torpedoes,
16 skyrockets, Roman candles, sparklers, bombs, or other
17 fireworks of like construction and any fireworks containing
18 any explosive compound, or any tablets or other device
19 containing any explosive substance, or containing combustible
20 substances producing visual effects: provided, however, that
21 the term "fireworks" shall not include snake or glow worm
22 pellets; smoke devices; trick noisemakers known as "party
23 poppers", "booby traps", "snappers", "trick matches",
24 "cigarette loads" and "auto burglar alarms"; sparklers; toy
25 pistols, toy canes, toy guns, or other devices in which paper
26 or plastic caps containing twenty-five hundredths grains or
27 less of explosive compound are used, providing they are so
28 constructed that the hand cannot come in contact with the cap
29 when in place for the explosion; and toy pistol paper or
30 plastic caps which contain less than twenty hundredths grains
31 of explosive mixture; the sale and use of which shall be
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1 permitted at all times.
2 (Source: P.A. 83-474.)
3 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4 becoming law.