Planning to celebrate the holiday with fireworks this weekend? Well, the Gainesville Police Department has the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the restrictions on where and under what circumstances you should not use them.
Here’s what Georgia law says:
- (iii) Within 100 yards of an electric plant; water treatment plant; waste-water treatment plant; a facility engaged in the retail sale of gasoline or other flammable or combustible liquids or gases where the volume stored is in excess of 500 gallons for the purpose of retail sale; a facility engaged in the production, refining, processing, or blending of any flammable or combustible liquids or gases for retail purposes; any public or private electric substation; or a jail or prison;
- (iv) Within 100 yards of the boundaries of any public use air facility provided for under Title 6 or any public use landing area or platform marked and designed for landing use by helicopters;
- (v) Within any park, historic site, recreational area, or other property which is owned by or operated by, for, or under the custody and control of a governing authority of a county or municipal corporation, except pursuant to a special use permit as provided for in subparagraph (D) of this paragraph;
- (vi) Within any park, historic site, recreational area, or other property which is owned by or operated by, for, or under the custody and control of the State of Georgia, except pursuant to
- any rules and regulations of the agency or department having control of such property which may allow for such use or ignition of consumer fireworks;
- (vii) Within 100 yards of a hospital, nursing home, or other health care facility regulated under Chapter 7 of Title 31; provided, however, that an owner or operator of such facility may use or ignite or cause to be ignited consumer fireworks on the property of such facility or may grant written permission to any person, firm, corporation, association, or partnership to use or ignite or cause to be ignited consumer fireworks on the property of such facility; or
- (viii) While under the influence of alcohol or any drug or any combination of alcohol and any drug…
- And, as dry as it is, you might want to keep a source of water close at hand just in case you start a grass fire and no using them before 10:00 in the morning or after midnight.