Bill > HB886

This bill makes several changes to Mississippi law regarding fireworks, primarily allowing for their year-round sale and purchase from permanent structures instead of temporary stands. Specifically, it requires that fireworks for sale, both wholesale and retail, must be stored and sold within a permanent building, not a temporary stand, and mandates that these locations have appropriate fire safety measures like fire extinguishers. The bill also removes the previous restrictions on when fireworks can be sold and purchased, making them available throughout the entire year, though it maintains the prohibition on selling them to individuals under twelve years old and sets specific distances from buildings where fireworks cannot be ignited. Additionally, the bill includes provisions that bring forward existing laws related to the regulation of fireworks and explosives, municipal powers to control them, and record-keeping requirements for the sale and transport of explosives, with a minor nonsubstantive change to a section concerning the unlawful explosion of fireworks near certain structures.

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