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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 3001 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 664 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2019 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 3001 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SEN. WITKOS, 8th Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALE AND USE OF CONSUMER GRADE |
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| 19 | 19 | | FIREWORKS. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 21 | 21 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 23 | 23 | | That the general statutes be amended to (1) expand the type of 1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | fireworks that may be legally sold and used in this state by allowing 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | the sale and use of all consumer fireworks permitted by federal law; (2) 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | allow any person twenty-one years of age or older to use or explode 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | consumer fireworks from six o'clock p.m. to eleven o'clock p.m. on any 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | day and from eleven o'clock p.m. on New Year's Eve until one o'clock 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | a.m. on New Year's Day; (3) require the Commissioner of Consumer 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Protection to create a license to sell consumer fireworks and require a 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | seller to obtain such license and a federal fireworks license before 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | selling consumer fireworks; (4) allow licensees to store and sell 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | consumer fireworks only from a permanent facility in accordance with 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the National Fire Protection Association Section 1124: Code for the 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Manufacture, Transportation, and Storage of Fireworks and 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Pyrotechnic Articles, 2006 edition; (5) require a separate license from 14 |
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| 37 | 37 | | the Department of Consumer Protection for each location that sells 15 |
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| 38 | 38 | | fireworks; (6) require the State Fire Marshal to (A) inspect the premises 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | where fireworks are sold, stored and offered for retail sale to the 17 Proposed Bill No. 664 |
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| 42 | 42 | | LCO No. 3001 2 of 2 |
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| 44 | 44 | | public, and (B) enforce the age and time of day restrictions on use of 18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | fireworks; (7) impose a tax on the initial sale of fireworks in the state at 19 |
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| 46 | 46 | | the rate of five per cent of the average wholesale price, with tax 20 |
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| 47 | 47 | | revenue deposited into a consumer fireworks account for distribution 21 |
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| 48 | 48 | | to the firefighters cancer relief account and the state fire school training 22 |
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| 49 | 49 | | and education extension account; (8) provide that an unlicensed seller 23 |
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| 50 | 50 | | who offers or exposes for sale, sells at retail or possesses with the 24 |
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| 51 | 51 | | intent to sell consumer fireworks commits an unfair trade practice; and 25 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (9) provide that a person is guilty of a class C misdemeanor if the 26 |
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| 53 | 53 | | person (A) is an unlicensed seller who offers or exposes for sale, sells at 27 |
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| 54 | 54 | | retail or possesses with the intent to sell consumer fireworks, or (B) 28 |
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| 55 | 55 | | violates the age restrictions on possession of fireworks or the time of 29 |
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| 56 | 56 | | day restrictions on use of fireworks. 30 |
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| 57 | 57 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 58 | 58 | | To permit the sale and use of consumer grade fireworks. |
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