Carson OKs Rules on Fireworks Sales
The Carson City Council Tuesday approved restrictions on the purchase and sale of so-called safe-and-sane fireworks, including raising the minimum age of purchase from 16 to 18.
The restrictions were proposed by a city task force the council created in February, when it rejected a drive to ban the fireworks sales.
Nonprofit charitable organizations, which market the fireworks to raise money, had been allowed to sell the items from June 28 to July 6. The new regulations will halt sales at midnight July 4, limit each nonprofit organization to one stand and charge $100 per stand to cover the city’s cost for inspections.
The council adopted the new regulations on a 4-0 vote, with Mayor Michael I. Mitoma abstaining. Mitoma has long favored a ban on the devices.
Safe-and-sane fireworks are permitted under state law unless cities or counties ban them. They include sparklers, smoke snakes, cone-shaped fountains that spout multicolored sparks, and party poppers, which emit paper streamers.
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