TITLE: Relating to regulation of the sale of fireworks by certain municipalities.

SUMMARY: Relating to regulation of the sale of fireworks by certain municipalities.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to regulation of the sale of fireworks by certain municipalities. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 217.042, Local Government Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the [The] municipality may define and prohibit any nuisance within the limits of the municipality and within 5,000 feet outside the limits. (c) The municipality may not define and prohibit as a nuisance the sale of a firework or similar material outside the limits of the municipality from a structure at which fireworks or similar materials have been regularly sold during authorized periods since before September 1, 2010. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.