Fireworks:
The use, discharge or ignition of fireworks, on any public property within the city is prohibited unless authorized by the city.
Permissible consumer fireworks may be used, discharged or ignited on private property only with the consent of the owner or other person in control of the private property. The consenting owner, consenting person in control and the user of the fireworks shall be responsible for any injuries or damages caused by such use.
No person who is under sixteen years of age may use, discharge, or ignite permissible consumer fireworks without direct supervision of a person who is eighteen years of age or over.
Permissible consumer fireworks are:
- Ground and handheld sparkling devices
- Cylindrical fountains
- Cone fountains
- Illuminating torches
- Wheels
- Ground spinners
- Flitter sparklers
- Toy smoke devices
- Wire sparklers or dipped sticks
- Multiple tube ground and handheld sparkling devices, cylindrical fountains, cone fountains and illuminating torches
These types of fireworks are not permissible consumer fireworks and cannot be used: fireworks that do not to rise into the air and explode or to detonate in the air or to fly above the ground, including firecrackers, bottle rockets, sky rockets, missile-type rockets, helicopters, aerial spinners, torpedoes, roman candles, mine devices, shell devices and aerial shell kits or reloadable tubes.
Sale of fireworks – Fireworks cannot be sold to a person under 16 years old.
Section 10-1-15
A. Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases when used in this section, have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
- "Consumer fireworks” means those fireworks defined by A.R.S. § 36-1601.
- “Display fireworks” means those fireworks defined by A.R.S. § 36-1601.
- “Fireworks” means any combustible or explosive composition, substance or combination of substances, or any article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation, that is a consumer firework, display firework or permissible consumer firework as defined by A.R.S. § 36-1101.
- “Novelty items” means federally deregulated novelty items that are known as snappers, snap caps, party poppers, glow worms, snakes, toy smoke devices, sparklers, and certain toys as defined in A.R.S. § 36-1601.
- “Permissible consumer fireworks” means those fireworks as defined by A.R.S. § 36-1601 that may be sold within Litchfield Park even where the use of those items is prohibited.
- “Supervised public display” means a monitored performance of display fireworks open to the public and authorized by permit by the city’s fire service provider.
B. Use of Fireworks.
- The use, discharge or ignition of fireworks, including permissible consumer fireworks, on any public property within the city is prohibited unless authorized by the city.
- Permissible consumer fireworks may be used, discharged or ignited on private property only with the consent of the owner or other person in control of the private property. The consenting owner, consenting person in control and the user of the fireworks shall be responsible for any injuries or damages caused by such use.
- No person who is under sixteen years of age may use, discharge, or ignite permissible consumer fireworks without direct supervision of a person who is eighteen years of age or over.
- Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the use, discharge or ignition of novelty items or the occurrence of a supervised public display of fireworks.
- Permits may be granted by the city’s fire service provider for conducting a properly supervised public display of fireworks. Every such public display of fireworks shall be of such character and so located, discharged or fired, only after proper inspection and in a manner that does not endanger persons, animals, or property. A permit shall not be issued, and may be revoked, during time periods of high fire danger warnings. The city’s fire service provider has authority to impose conditions on any permits granted.
C. Sale of Fireworks.
- No person shall sell or permit or authorize the sale of permissible consumer fireworks to a person who is under sixteen years of age.
- No person shall sell or permit or authorize the sale of permissible consumer fireworks in conflict with state law.
Curfew
Age 15 or younger: 10 P.M. to 5:00 A.M. everyday, including weekends; Age 16-17: Midnight to 5:00 A.M. everyday, including weekends.
Section 10-1-9 Curfew
B. Offenses.
1. It is unlawful for any minor under the age of sixteen years to be in, about, or upon any place in the city away from the property where the youth resides between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day.
2. It is unlawful for any minor sixteen years of age or older and under the age of eighteen years, to be in, about, or upon any place in the city away from the property where the child resides between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.
3. It is unlawful for a parent or guardian of a minor to knowingly permit, or by insufficient control, allow a minor to violate subsection (B)(1) or subsection (B)(2) as listed above.
4. It is unlawful for a parent, guardian or other person having the care, custody or supervision of the minor to fail or refuse to take custody of the minor after such demand is made upon him by a law enforcement officer who arrests the minor for violation of subsection (B)(1) or (B)(2) as listed above.
Cell Phones and Driving
It is illegal to use your cell phone while driving if you are a teenager and received your license less than 6 months ago; unless it is an emergency or for turn-by-turn directions that have already been entered into the phone.
A.R.S 28-3174. Class G driver licenses; restrictions; civil penalties; motorcycles
F. Except as provided in subsection K of this section, for the first six months that a class G licensee holds the license, the licensee may not drive a motor vehicle while using a wireless communication device for any reason except either:
1. During an emergency in which stopping the motor vehicle is impossible or will create an additional emergency or safety hazard.
2. When using an audible turn-by-turn navigation system if both of the following apply:
(a) The destination is not manually entered into the wireless communication device while the licensee is driving the motor vehicle.
(b) The licensee does not manually adjust the wireless communication device while driving the motor vehicle.
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