Effective - 28 Aug 2004
320.151. Sales to children, sales by children, unlawful, exceptions — exploding fireworks near gasoline pumps, certain buildings or from or at motor vehicles, prohibited — certain restrictions — demonstrating and testing allowed, requirements. — 1. It is unlawful to attempt to sell or to sell at retail any fireworks to children under the age of fourteen years except when such child is in the presence of a parent or guardian.
2. It is unlawful for any person under the age of sixteen to sell fireworks or work in a facility where fireworks are stored, sold, or offered for sale unless supervised by an adult.
3. It is unlawful to explode or ignite consumer fireworks within six hundred feet of any church, hospital, mental health facility, school, or within one hundred feet of any location where fireworks are stored, sold, or offered for sale.
4. No person shall ignite or discharge any permissible articles of consumer fireworks within or throw the same from a motorized vehicle including watercraft or any other means of transportation, except where display permit has been issued for a floating vessel or floating platform, nor shall any person place or throw any ignited article of fireworks into or at a motorized vehicle including watercraft or any other means of transportation, or at or near any person or group of people.
5. No person shall ignite or discharge consumer fireworks within three hundred feet of any permanent storage of ignitable liquid, gases, gasoline pump, gasoline filling station, or any nonpermanent structure where fireworks are stored, sold or offered for sale.
6. No items of explosive or pyrotechnic composition other than fireworks as defined by subdivisions* (3), (5), and (17) of section 320.106 shall be displayed, sold, or offered for sale within the applicable permit location as identified on such permit granted by the state fire marshal.
7. Proximate fireworks shall not be allowed to be stored with consumer fireworks.
8. All storage and transportation of fireworks shall be in accordance with all federal and state rules and regulations.
9. Nothing in sections 320.106 to 320.161 shall be construed to prevent permittees from demonstrating or testing fireworks. Any such demonstration or test shall require the notification and approval of the local fire service or the state fire marshal.
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(L. 1985 S.B. 76 § 10, A.L. 1987 H.B. 416, A.L. 1998 S.B. 536, A.L. 1999 H.B. 343, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1196)
*Word "subsections" appears in original rolls.
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals
Section 320.010 - Proprietors of public buildings required to erect fire escapes — how constructed.
Section 320.020 - How erected and enclosed.
Section 320.030 - Number to each building.
Section 320.040 - Buildings to be equipped with fire escapes.
Section 320.060 - Duty of officers.
Section 320.070 - Doors to certain buildings to be hung, how.
Section 320.081 - Fire insurance company records to be furnished law enforcement officials, when.
Section 320.088 - Personal protective equipment, standards for purchasing.
Section 320.089 - Labeling requirement for personal protective equipment, violation, penalty.
Section 320.092 - Creates annual reporting requirements for certain tax credits.
Section 320.097 - Residency requirements prohibited, when.
Section 320.106 - Definitions.
Section 320.121 - Powers of cities and certain counties to regulate or prohibit fireworks.
Section 320.122 - Supremacy clause — regulation of fireworks (St. Louis County).
Section 320.136 - Ground salutes, special type, prohibited.
Section 320.141 - Permissible items of consumer fireworks, how sold, when.
Section 320.146 - Display and storage of fireworks, restrictions on.
Section 320.156 - Items and activities not subject to provisions of sections 320.106 to 320.161.
Section 320.161 - Penalty provisions.
Section 320.200 - Definitions.
Section 320.205 - Fire marshal, appointment, qualifications.
Section 320.210 - Employees, how appointed, qualifications.
Section 320.215 - Reimbursement of employees, expenses and equipment, state to furnish.
Section 320.220 - Special deputy, who eligible.
Section 320.225 - Investigator to have same powers as fire marshal, when.
Section 320.235 - Reports and records required — open to public, exceptions.
Section 320.240 - Property may be entered for investigation, when.
Section 320.250 - Powers of political subdivisions not affected.
Section 320.255 - Salaries, expenses and costs, how paid.
Section 320.260 - Office space to be provided.
Section 320.265 - Appeals, how taken.
Section 320.300 - Volunteer fire protection association, definition.
Section 320.307 - Nonpayment of claim, association has cause of action, amount.
Section 320.310 - Boundaries, filing with county — sole providers, when.
Section 320.330 - Citation of law.
Section 320.333 - Definitions.
Section 320.339 - Wrongful termination, cause of action permitted.
Section 320.350 - Title of law — definitions.
Section 320.362 - Violations, penalties.
Section 320.365 - Rulemaking authority — department of revenue may inspect cigarettes for markings.
Section 320.368 - Enforcement procedures — authorization to examine records.
Section 320.371 - Fund created, use of moneys.