Code of Alabama
Article 8 - Fireworks.
Section 8-17-217 - Permissible Items of Fireworks.

(a) It shall be unlawful for an individual, firm, partnership, or corporation to possess, sell, or use within the State of Alabama, or ship into the State of Alabama, except as provided in Section 8-17-216, any pyrotechnics commonly known as "fireworks" other than items now or hereafter classified as Class C consumer fireworks by the United States Department of Transportation, including, but not limited to, aerial devices, audible ground devices, sparkling devices, and novelties and those items that comply with the construction, chemical composition, and labeling regulations promulgated by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission and permitted for use by the general public under their regulations.
(b) Permitted items designed to produce an audible effect are confined to small ground items which include firecrackers containing not over 50 milligrams of explosive composition and aerial devices containing not over 130 milligrams of explosive composition. Propelling or expelling charge consisting of a mixture of charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate are not considered as designed to produce an audible effect.
(c) Items permitted and for which a permit is required shall include related items not classified by the United States Department of Transportation as consumer fireworks, but identified under their regulations as trick noisemakers, toy novelties, toy smoke devices and sparklers and shall include toy snakes, snappers, auto burglar alarms, smoke balls, smoke novelty items, and wire sparklers containing not over 100 grams of composition per item. Sparklers containing any chlorate or perchlorate salts may not exceed five grams of composition per item.

Structure Code of Alabama

Code of Alabama

Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.

Chapter 17 - Regulation of Certain Goods and Products.

Article 8 - Fireworks.

Section 8-17-210 - Definitions.

Section 8-17-211 - Permit for Manufacture, Sale, etc., of Fireworks or Pyrotechnics for Use Before a Proximate Audience; Record of Sales; Enforcement.

Section 8-17-212 - Assignment and Utilization of Permit Numbers.

Section 8-17-213 - Requirement That Consignee Produce Permit, etc., Prior to Delivery, Sale, etc., of Fireworks; Requirement That Purchaser of Fireworks Obtain Proof That Seller Possesses Permit; Keeping of Records by Permit Holders.

Section 8-17-214 - Revocation of Permit for Reasons of Purchasing, Receiving, etc., Illegal Fireworks; Notice of Revocation; Refusal to Issue New Permit to Holder Whose Permit Is Cancelled or Revoked.

Section 8-17-215 - Effect of Article on State, County, and Municipal License Requirements; Requirement of Proof of Current and Valid Sales Tax Number.

Section 8-17-216 - Permits for Sale, Use, etc., of Special Fireworks for Public Displays.

Section 8-17-216.1 - Use of Pyrotechnics Before a Proximate Audience.

Section 8-17-217 - Permissible Items of Fireworks.

Section 8-17-218 - Sale, Use, etc., of Special Class B Commercial Type Ground Salutes.

Section 8-17-219 - Conformance of Permissible Items to Nomenclature of Section 8-17-217; Identification Marks on Items.

Section 8-17-220 - Authorization for Retail Sales of Permissible Items of Fireworks; Items for Which Special Fireworks Permit at No Time Required.

Section 8-17-221 - Requirements as to Storage, Display, etc., of Fireworks; Retail Sales of Fireworks From Tents, Motor Vehicles, etc.; Inspection by State Fire Marshal, etc., of Premises Where Fireworks Are to Be Stored or Sold.

Section 8-17-222 - Sale, etc., of Fireworks to Persons Under 16 or Intoxicated or Irresponsible Persons; Display of Identification by Persons Purchasing Fireworks; Acts Constituting Unlawful Explosion or Ignition of Fireworks.

Section 8-17-223 - Applicability of Article.

Section 8-17-224 - Penalty.

Section 8-17-225 - Authority of State Fire Marshal to Seize and Destroy Illegal Fireworks.

Section 8-17-226 - Effect of Article on Validity of City Ordinances.