Full Text of HB6366 93rd General Assembly
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Rep. Tom Cross
Filed: 3/31/2004
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 6366
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 6366 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Fireworks Regulation Act of Illinois is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
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| (425 ILCS 30/2) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 102)
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| Sec. 2. The following words and phrases, when used in this | 8 |
| Act, shall
for the purpose of this Act have the following | 9 |
| definition and meaning:
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| (a) The term fireworks shall mean and include any explosive
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| composition or any substance or combination of substances, or | 12 |
| article
prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or | 13 |
| audible effect of a
temporary exhibitional nature by explosion, | 14 |
| combustion, deflagration or
detonation, and shall include | 15 |
| blank cartridges, toy cannons in which
explosives are used, the | 16 |
| type of balloons which require fire underneath
to propel the | 17 |
| same, firecrackers, torpedoes, sky rockets, Roman candles,
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| bombs or other fireworks of like construction and any
fireworks | 19 |
| containing any explosive compound; or any tablets or other
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| device containing any explosive substance, or containing | 21 |
| combustible
substances producing visual effects. The term | 22 |
| "fireworks" shall not
include snake or glow worm pellets; smoke | 23 |
| devices; sparklers or sparkling devices, whether handheld or | 24 |
| ground based, of not more than one hundred grams of pyrotechnic |
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| mixture per tube, which are nonexplosive and non-aerial ; trick | 2 |
| noisemakers
known as "party poppers", "booby traps", | 3 |
| "snappers", "trick matches", "cigarette
loads" and "auto | 4 |
| burglar alarms"; toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns, or
other | 5 |
| devices in which
paper or plastic caps containing twenty-five | 6 |
| hundredths grains or less
of explosive compound are used, | 7 |
| provided they are so constructed that
the hand cannot come in | 8 |
| contact with the cap when in place for the
explosion; and toy | 9 |
| pistol paper or plastic caps which contain
less than | 10 |
| twenty-five hundredths grains of explosive mixture;
the sale | 11 |
| and use of
which shall be permitted at all times.
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| (b) The term "fireworks plant" shall mean and include all | 13 |
| lands,
with buildings thereon, used in connection with the | 14 |
| manufacture or
processing of fireworks, as well as storehouses | 15 |
| located thereon for the
storage of finished fireworks.
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| (c) The term "fireworks factory building" shall mean any | 17 |
| building or
other structure in which the manufacture of | 18 |
| fireworks, or in which any
processing involving fireworks is | 19 |
| carried on.
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| (d) The term "magazine" shall mean any building or other | 21 |
| structure
used for the storage of explosive raw materials used | 22 |
| in the manufacture
of fireworks.
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| (e) The term "Office" shall mean the Office of the State | 24 |
| Fire Marshal.
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| (Source: P.A. 83-474.)
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| Section 10. The Fireworks Use Act is amended by changing | 27 |
| Section 1 as follows:
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| (425 ILCS 35/1) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 127)
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| Sec. 1. The term fireworks shall mean and include any | 30 |
| explosive
composition, or any substance or combination of | 31 |
| substances, or article
prepared for the purpose of producing a | 32 |
| visible or audible effect of a
temporary exhibitional nature by |
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| explosion, combustion, deflagration or
detonation, and shall | 2 |
| include blank cartridges, toy cannons, in which
explosives are | 3 |
| used, the type of balloons which require fire underneath to
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| propel the same, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman | 5 |
| candles, bombs,
or other fireworks of like construction and any | 6 |
| fireworks
containing any explosive compound, or any tablets or | 7 |
| other device
containing any explosive substance, or containing | 8 |
| combustible substances
producing visual effects: provided, | 9 |
| however, that the term "fireworks"
shall not include snake or | 10 |
| glow worm pellets; smoke devices; trick noisemakers
known as | 11 |
| "party poppers", "booby traps", "snappers", "trick matches", | 12 |
| "cigarette
loads" and "auto burglar alarms"; sparklers or | 13 |
| sparkling devices, whether handheld or ground based, of not | 14 |
| more than one hundred grams of pyrotechnic mixture per tube, | 15 |
| which are nonexplosive and non-aerial ; toy pistols, toy
canes, | 16 |
| toy guns, or other devices in
which paper or plastic caps | 17 |
| containing twenty-five hundredths grains or
less of explosive | 18 |
| compound are used, providing they are so constructed that
the | 19 |
| hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in place for the
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| explosion; and toy pistol paper or plastic caps which contain | 21 |
| less than
twenty hundredths grains of explosive mixture; the | 22 |
| sale and use of which
shall be permitted at all times.
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| (Source: P.A. 83-474.)".
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