Arkansas Code Title 20, Subtitle 2, Chapter 22, Subchapter 7 - Fireworks

• § 20-22-701 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Distributor" means any person engaged in the business of making sales of fireworks at wholesale in this state...
• § 20-22-702 - Public Displays Excepted.
  (a) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as applying to the shipping, sale, possession, and use of fireworks for public displays by holders...
• § 20-22-703 - Other Exceptions.
  (a) (1) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as applying to the: (A) Manufacture, storage, sale, or use of signals necessary for the...
• § 20-22-704 - Power of Municipalities Unaffected.
  This subchapter shall not affect the power of any municipality to regulate or prohibit the sale or use of fireworks.
• § 20-22-705 - Violation of Subchapter -- Penalties.
  Any person violating any of the provisions of this subchapter, except § 20-22-706, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be...
• § 20-22-706 - License Required -- Penalty.
  (a) No person shall do any act for which a license or permit is required by this subchapter or by local authorities acting pursuant...
• § 20-22-707 - License -- Application and Issuance.
  (a) (1) (A) To be licensed as a manufacturer, importer, distributor, jobber, retailer, or shooter of fireworks, a first-time applicant shall submit to the...
• § 20-22-708 - Possession, Sale, and Use Unlawful -- Exceptions.
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to possess, sell, or use, within the State of Arkansas, or ship into the State of...
• § 20-22-709 - Labeling.
  (a) No permissible articles of common fireworks defined in § 20-22-708 shall be sold, offered for sale, or possessed within the state, or used...
• § 20-22-710 - Location, Display, Sale, Etc.
  (a) The placing, storing, locating, or displaying of fireworks in any window where the sun may shine through glass on to the fireworks so...
• § 20-22-711 - Times of Permissible Sales.
  (a) Permissible items of fireworks, defined in § 20-22-708, may be sold at retail to residents of the State of Arkansas and used within...
• § 20-22-712 - Sales to Certain People Prohibited.
  It shall be unlawful to offer for retail sale or to sell any fireworks to children under twelve (12) years of age or to...
• § 20-22-713 - Place of Explosion or Ignition.
  (a) It shall be unlawful to explode or ignite fireworks within six hundred feet (600') of any church, hospital, asylum, public school, or within...
• § 20-22-714 - Seizure of Contraband Fireworks.
  (a) The Director of the Department of Arkansas State Police shall seize as contraband any fireworks other than Class C common fireworks defined in...
• § 20-22-715 - Notice of Violation -- Hearing.
  (a) With reference to the administrative and civil penalties imposed by this subchapter, the Director of the Department of Arkansas State Police shall notify...
• § 20-22-716 - License Limitations.
  (a) An importer license does not authorize a person to sell fireworks at wholesale or retail.(b) A jobber that does not possess an importer...
• § 20-22-717 - Sale or Use of Sky Lanterns.
  (a) As used in this section, "sky lantern" means an unmanned free-floating device designed to contain an open flame.(b) The sale or use of...

Last modified: November 15, 2016