[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of Black Earth 5-1-1990
by Ord. No. 90-O-7 as § 10.06 of the 1990 Code.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Licenses and permits — See Ch. 179.
No person shall sell, expose or offer for sale, use, keep, discharge
or explode any fireworks except toy pistols, paper caps, sparklers, toy snakes,
cylindrical fountains and cone fountains, etc., as defined in § 167.10(1)(e),
(f), (i), (j), (k), (1), (m) and (n), Wis. Stats., within the limits of the
Village unless he shall be authorized by a fireworks permit as hereinafter
provided. The term "fireworks" as used in this section shall be defined as
provided in § 167.10, Wis. Stats., and shall be deemed to include
all rockets or similar missiles containing explosive fuel.
Fireworks, other than those prohibited by laws of the State of Wisconsin,
may be used and displayed in open fields, parks, rivers, lakes and ponds by
public authorities, fair associations, amusement parks, park boards, civic
organizations and other groups of individuals, and agricultural producers
for protection of crops from predatory birds or animals, when a permit for
such display has been granted by the Village President.
A.
All applications shall be referred to the Village Fire
Chief for investigation, and no permit shall be granted unless the Village
President, from the report of the Village Fire Chief, determines that the
applicant will use the fireworks in a public exhibition, that all reasonable
precautions will be exercised with regard to the protection of the lives and
property of all persons and that the display will be handled by a competent
operator and conducted in a suitable, safe place and manner.
B.
Before granting any fireworks permit, the
Village President may require the applicant to post with the Village Clerk-Treasurer
an approved indemnity bond in the sum of $1,000,000 or evidence of liability
insurance in the amount of $1,000,000 for the payment of all claims that may
arise by reason of injuries to persons or property from the handling, use
or discharge of fireworks under such permit.
