2015 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 51 - Trade and Commerce
RS 51:652 - Proper naming; certification on shipping cases; time for selling; exceptions; sale and storage in homes prohibited

§652. Proper naming; certification on shipping cases; time for selling; exceptions; sale and storage in homes prohibited

            A. No permissible articles of consumer fireworks enumerated in R.S. 51:651 shall be sold, offered for sale, or used in the state of Louisiana, unless it shall be properly named to conform to the nomenclature of R.S. 51:651 and unless it is certified on all shipping cases and by imprinting on the article or retail container "United States Department of Transportation UN 0336, 1.4G, 1.4S or consumer fireworks". Such imprint shall be of sufficient size and so positioned as to be readily recognized by law enforcement authorities and the general public.

            B. Permissible items of fireworks, enumerated in R.S. 51:651 may be sold at retail from noon June sixteenth through midnight July fifth and noon December fifteenth through midnight January first of each year only, except that the term "fireworks" shall not include toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns, or other devices in which paper caps containing twenty-five hundredths (25/100) grains or less of explosive compounds are used, provided they are so constructed that the hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in place for exploding, and toy paper pistol caps which contain less than twenty-five hundredths (25/100) grains of explosive compounds, and the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.

            C. Fireworks shall not be sold or stored for future sale at any inhabited dwelling, house, apartment, or other structure used in whole or in part as a home or place of abode by any person or persons.

            Acts 1958, No. 63, §§2, 3; Amended by Acts 1981, No. 928, §1; Acts 1987, No. 401, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1988; Acts 2001, No. 667, §1, eff. June 25, 2001; Acts 2015, No. 67, §1.