[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Buchanan 10-4-1971 by L.L. No. 1-1971 (Ch. 14 of the 1971
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The discharge, firing, exploding or use of firecrackers, rockets,
skyrockets, torpedoes, aerial salutes, bombs, roman candles, fire
balloons, fireworks, pistols, cannons, blank cartridges or any other
device, appliance or contrivance using or containing chlorate of potash
mixture, nitrates, oxalates, sulfides of lead, barium, antimony, arsenic,
mercury, nitroglycerin, phosphorous or any combustible of explosive
composition of any substance or composition of substances or flammable
compound or tablet designed or intended to produce a visible or audible
pyrotechnic effect by combustion, explosion, conflagration, deflagration
or detonation is hereby prohibited within the limits of the Village
of Buchanan, except when done under special authority of the Board
of Trustees of said Village as hereinafter provided.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Buchanan, upon written
petition addressed to it and filed in the office of the Clerk of the
Village, may grant to such person, persons, firm or corporation, as
it may determine, from time to time, permission for the display of
fireworks and pyrotechnics under such terms as it may prescribe, not
inconsistent herewith; provided, however, that in no case shall any
such permit be granted unless there shall appear from the written
petition for the same the date, time of day when and place where such
display is proposed and the name of the person, persons, firm or corporation
under whose auspices the same is to be held, together with a general
description of the character of fireworks and all other pyrotechnics
to be used, and the occasion, reason or purpose of such display; and
provided further, however, that in no case shall the use or display
thereof continue after the hour of 11:00 p.m.
Any person, firm, copartnership or corporation violating any
provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished for each offense by a fine not
to exceed $50 or by imprisonment in the Westchester County Penitentiary
for a term of not to exceed 60 days.
