REFERENCE TITLE: fireworks; penalties

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2020

HB 2470

Introduced by

Representative Payne

AN ACT

Amending section 36‑1608, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to fireworks.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 36-1608, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE36-1608.  Civil penalty; violation; classification

A.  A person violating who violates a provision of this article is subject to a civil penalty of one thousand dollars $1000.  A person who uses fireworks as proscribed in section 36‑1601, paragraph 7, subdivision (c):

1.  for a first violation, is subject to a civil penalty of $1,000.

2.  For a second violation within sixty months after the first violation, is subject to a civil penalty of $2,000.

3.  For a third violation within sixty months after the first violation, is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.

B.  A person who uses fireworks or permissible consumer fireworks on preservation lands owned by a city or town that has purchased more than fifteen thousand acres of land for preservation purposes is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor and shall pay a fine of at least one thousand dollars $1,000. END_STATUTE