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IN HB1384
Bill
Status
1/14/2015
Primary Sponsor
Gail Riecken
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AI Summary
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Amends IC 22-11-14-10.5 to allow counties to adopt ordinances regulating consumer fireworks use in unincorporated areas and municipalities to adopt ordinances regulating consumer fireworks use within corporate limits.
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Ordinances may limit the days and hours when consumer fireworks or items referenced in section 8(a) may be used, ignited, or discharged.
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Ordinances cannot be more lenient than state agency rules concerning fireworks use.
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Ordinances cannot prohibit consumer fireworks use during specified holiday periods: 5:00 p.m. to two hours after sunset on June 29-30 and July 1-3, 5-9; 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight on July 4; and 10:00 a.m. December 31 to 1:00 a.m. January 1.
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Becomes effective upon passage, with an emergency declared for this act.
Legislative Description
Fireworks regulation. Provides that a county or municipality may adopt an ordinance to limit the days and hours when consumer fireworks or certain other fireworks may be used, ignited, or discharged within the county or municipality, with certain exceptions.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy
1/14/2015