45-13-9 - Dates when sales prohibited; sales to children; unlawful to explode or ignite in certain places. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 45-13-9. Dates when sales prohibited; sales to children; unlawful to explode or ignite in certain places.
 

No fireworks shall be sold or offered for sale at retail before the fifteenth day of June and after the fifth day of July and before the fifth day of December and after the second day of January of each year. No fireworks shall be sold to any person under the age of twelve (12) years. It shall be unlawful to ignite or discharge fireworks of any type within six hundred (600) feet of any church, hospital or school, or within seventy-five (75) feet of where fireworks are stored or offered for sale. It shall also be unlawful to ignite or discharge the same within or throw the same from or into or at any motor vehicle. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 7015-05; Laws,  1960, ch. 249, § 5, eff from and after June 30, 1960.