As used in this part 20, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) Articles pyrotechnic means pyrotechnic special effects materials and
pyrotechnic devices for professional use that are similar to consumer fireworks in
chemical composition and construction but are intended for theatrical
performances and not intended for consumer use. Articles pyrotechnic shall also
include pyrotechnic devices meeting the weight limits for consumer fireworks but
are not labeled as such and are classified as UN0431 or UN0432 pursuant to 49
CFR 172.101, as amended.
(2) Display fireworks means large fireworks designed primarily to produce
visible or audible effects by combustion, deflagration, or detonation and includes,
but is not limited to, salutes containing more than one hundred thirty milligrams of
explosive material, aerial shells containing more than forty grams of pyrotechnic
compositions, and other display pieces that exceed the limits of explosive materials
for classification as consumer fireworks as defined in 16 CFR 1500.1 to 1500.272
and 16 CFR 1507.1 to 1507.12 and are classified as fireworks UN0333, UN0334, or
UN0335 pursuant to 49 CFR 172.101, as amended, and including fused set pieces
containing components that exceed fifty milligrams of salute powder.
(3) Display retailer means a person, including a manufacturer, who is
licensed as a display retailer under the provisions of section 24-33.5-2004 and who
sells, delivers, consigns, gives, or otherwise furnishes display fireworks or articles
pyrotechnic to a person authorized by section 24-33.5-2003 to discharge fireworks
in Colorado.
(4) Exporter means any person, including a manufacturer, licensed as an
exporter under the provisions of section 24-33.5-2004 and who sells, delivers,
consigns, gives, or otherwise furnishes fireworks for export outside of the state of
Colorado.
(5) (a) Fireworks means any composition or device designed to produce a
visible or audible effect by combustion, deflagration, or detonation, and that meets
the definition of articles pyrotechnic, permissible fireworks, or display fireworks.
(b) Fireworks does not include:
(I) Toy caps, party poppers, and items similar to toy caps and party poppers
that do not contain more than sixteen milligrams of pyrotechnic composition per
item and snappers that do not contain more than one milligram of explosive
composition per item;
(II) Highway flares, railroad fusees, ship distress signals, smoke candles, and
other emergency signal devices;
(III) Educational rockets and toy propellant device type engines used in such
rockets when such rockets are of nonmetallic construction and utilize replaceable
engines or model cartridges containing less than two ounces of propellant and
when such engines or model cartridges are designed to be ignited by electrical
means;
(IV) Fireworks that are used in testing or research by a licensed explosives
laboratory.
(6) Fireworks display operator includes an individual who, by experience
and training, has demonstrated the required skill and ability to safely set up and
discharge display fireworks.
(7) Fund means the fireworks licensing cash fund created in section 24-33.5-2004 (6)(b).
(8) Governing body means:
(a) The city council, town council, board of trustees, or other governing body
of any city or town, as to the area within the corporate limits of the city or town;
(b) The board of directors of any fire protection district organized pursuant
to part 1 of article 1 of title 32, as to the area within the boundaries of the fire
protection district; and
(c) The board of county commissioners as to the area within a county outside
the corporate limits of any city or town or the boundaries of any fire protection
district.
(9) Local authority means the duly authorized fire department, police
department, or sheriff's department of a local jurisdiction.
(10) Manufacturer means any person who manufactures, makes,
constructs, or produces fireworks.
(11) (a) Permissible fireworks means the following small fireworks devices
designed to produce audible or visual effects by combustion, complying with the
requirements of the United States consumer product safety commission as set
forth in 16 CFR 1500.1 to 1500.272 and 1507.1 to 1507.12, and classified as consumer
fireworks UN0336 and UN0337 pursuant to 49 CFR 172.101:
(I) Cylindrical fountains, total pyrotechnic composition not to exceed
seventy-five grams each for a single tube or, when more than one tube is mounted
on a common base, a total pyrotechnic composition of no more than two hundred
grams;
(II) Cone fountains, total pyrotechnic composition not to exceed fifty grams
each for a single cone or, when more than one cone is mounted on a common base,
a total pyrotechnic composition of no more than two hundred grams;
(III) Wheels, total pyrotechnic composition not to exceed sixty grams for
each driver unit or two hundred grams for each complete wheel;
(IV) Ground spinner, a small device containing not more than twenty grams
of pyrotechnic composition venting out of an orifice usually in the side of the tube,
similar in operation to a wheel, but intended to be placed flat on the ground;
(V) Illuminating torches and colored fire in any form, total pyrotechnic
composition not to exceed two hundred grams each;
(VI) Dipped sticks and sparklers, the total pyrotechnic composition of which
does not exceed one hundred grams, of which the composition of any chlorate or
perchlorate shall not exceed five grams;
(VII) Any of the following that do not contain more than fifty milligrams of
explosive composition:
(A) Explosive auto alarms;
(B) Toy propellant devices;
(C) Cigarette loads;
(D) Strike-on-box matches; or
(E) Other trick noise makers;
(VIII) Snake or glow worm pressed pellets of not more than two grams of
pyrotechnic composition and packaged in retail packages of not more than twenty-five units;
(IX) Fireworks that are used exclusively for testing or research by a licensed
explosives laboratory;
(X) Multiple tube devices with:
(A) Each tube individually attached to a wood or plastic base;
(B) The tubes separated from each other on the base by a distance of at
least one-half of one inch;
(C) The effect limited to a shower of sparks to a height of no more than
fifteen feet above the ground;
(D) Only one external fuse that causes all of the tubes to function in
sequence; and
(E) A total pyrotechnic composition of no more than five hundred grams.
(b) Permissible fireworks do not include aerial devices or audible ground
devices, including, but not limited to, firecrackers.
(12) Person includes an individual, partnership, firm, company, association,
corporation, or governmental entity.
(13) Pyrotechnic operator includes an individual who, by experience and
training, has demonstrated the required skill and ability to safely set up and
discharge articles of pyrotechnics.
(14) Retailer means any person who sells, delivers, consigns, or furnishes
permissible fireworks to another person not for resale.
(15) Storage means the possession of fireworks for safe custody, where
the safekeeping is the principal object of deposit, and not the consumption or sale.
(16) Wholesaler means any person, including a manufacturer, who is
licensed as a wholesaler under section 24-33.5-2004 and who sells, delivers,
consigns, gives, or otherwise furnishes permissible fireworks to a retailer for resale
in Colorado.