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AZ SB1284

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/28/2025

Primary Sponsor

David Gowan

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

AI Summary

  • Updates fireworks standards from APA 87-1 to APA 87-1A and 87-1B (2018 version) and clarifies definitions of consumer and display fireworks.

  • Requires annual licensing for retailers selling permissible consumer fireworks and annual registration for wholesalers, with licensing fees to be established by the state fire marshal.

  • Prohibits sale of permissible consumer fireworks in tents, canopies, or membrane structures and raises minimum age for purchase from 16 to 18 years old.

  • Increases civil penalties for selling fireworks in violation of law from unspecified amount to $5,000 and increases fine for using fireworks on preservation lands from at least $1,000 to at least $5,000.

  • Authorizes the office of the state fire marshal, highway patrol, sheriffs, and municipal/county fire marshals to seize illegal fireworks and prohibits repeat violators (more than 2 confiscations in 5 years) from selling permissible consumer fireworks for 3 years.

Legislative Description

Fireworks; aerials; licensure; penalties

Licensure

Last Action

Senate read second time

1/29/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules1/28/2025
Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency1/28/2025

Full Bill Text

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