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For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:

“Display fireworks” are those fireworks defined by A.R.S. Section 36-1601.

“Expenses of an emergency response” means the reasonable costs directly incurred by public agencies including but not limited to the Sedona fire district, police and public works departments or other first responders including but not limited to private ambulance companies that make an appropriate emergency response to an incident.

“Fireworks” are those devices defined by A.R.S. Section 36-1601.4.

“Novelty items” are federally deregulated items known as snappers, snap caps, party poppers, glow worms, snakes, toy smoke devices, sparklers, and similar items that are not classified as fireworks by A.R.S. Section 36-1601.4.

“Permissible consumer fireworks” are those items defined by A.R.S. Section 36-1601.7 that include ground and handheld sparkling devices; cylindrical fountains; cone fountains; illuminating torches; wheels; ground spinners; flitter sparklers; toy smoke devices; and wire sparklers or dipped sticks. “Permissible consumer fireworks” does not include anything that is designed or intended to rise into the air and explode or to detonate in the air or to fly above the ground, including firework items defined by American Pyrotechnics Standard 87-1 and known as firecrackers, bottle rockets, skyrockets, missile-type rockets, helicopters, aerial spinners, torpedoes, Roman candles, mine devices, shell devices and aerial shell kits or reloadable tubes.

“Person” includes an individual, partnership, firm or corporation.

“Reasonable costs” are the costs of providing police, firefighting, cleanup, rescue and emergency medical services at the scene of an incident and the salaries of the persons who respond to the incident.

“Supervised public display” means a monitored performance of display fireworks open to the public and authorized by permit by the Sedona fire district or designee. [Code 2006 § 10-5-1. Ord. 2010-15 § 1, 10-12-2010; Res. 2010-29 Exh. A, 10-12-2010; Ord. 2022-10 § 1 (Exh. A), 11-8-2022].