MESSAGES: Follow the Laws When Using Fireworks

Here is this week’s edition of Lakeville Messages, which features a story about state fireworks laws.

Here is the text of the story:

Remember that any fireworks that explode or are aerial are ILLEGAL in Minnesota, including:

• Firecrackers and ladyfingers

• Sky rockets and bottle rockets

• Missile rockets

• Aerial spinners, planes, UFOs, helicopters

• Roman candles, shells

• Chasers, parachutes

• Any heavy cardboard or paper tube attached to  a base that upon ignition propels anything into the air

The only fireworks considered legal are novelty items such as snakes and glow worms, smoke devices, noise makers, party poppers, string poppers, snappers,

and drop pops containing no more than twenty-five hundredths grains of explosive.

Fireworks are not allowed on public property. This includes parks, trails, school grounds, and streets.

NO fireworks, even those novelty items considered legal, can be used on public property. The Lakeville Police Department will be enforcing this law, as well as

Minnesota’s illegal fireworks law.

To learn more about the State of Minnesota fireworks law that became effective in 2002 go to the City website at www.lakevillemn.gov under For Your Information,

on the home page.

The Pan-O-Prog fireworks display will be held on Thursday evening, July 4 at