Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police › 357 - Sale, Use, Transportation and Storage of Fireworks and Special Effects › Connecticut Fireworks and Special Effects Code › Section 29-357-4b - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in the Connecticut Fireworks and Special Effects
				  Code:
(1) "Amusement park" means an
				outdoor area used, maintained and operated as a place of recreation or
				amusement;
(2) "Applicant" means
				any person, firm or corporation requesting a permit to conduct a supervised
				display of fireworks or for the indoor use of pyrotechnics for special effects
				by municipalities, fair associations, amusement parks, other organizations or
				groups of individuals or artisans in pursuit of their trade;
(3) "ASTM" means the American Society for
				Testing and Materials, located at 100 Barr Drive, West Conshohocken, PA
				19428-2959;
(4) "Black match" means
				a fuse made from thread impregnated with black powder and used for igniting
				pyrotechnic devices;
(5) "Boxed
				finale" means a number of racks of mortars grouped closely together;
(6) "Break" means an individual effect from
				an aerial shell;
(7) "Certificate
				of competency" means a written assurance of an operator's qualifications,
				issued by the State Fire Marshal in accordance with the provisions of Section
				29-357
				of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(8) "Certified" means an individual certified
				in accordance with the provisions of Section
				29-298
				of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(9) "Common fireworks" means any small
				fireworks device designed primarily to produce visible effects by combustion,
				including whistling devices, ground devices containing 50 milligrams or less of
				explosive composition, novelty devices and trick noise makers;
(10) "Debris" means materials remaining after
				the discharge of fireworks or special effects, excluding non-pyrotechnic
				materials such as small pieces of paper, cardboard or plastic and litter left
				by spectators;
(11) "Discharge
				site" means the area immediately surrounding the mortars used to fire aerial
				shells;
(12) "Display" means the
				set up, firing or deflagration of fireworks, including ground or aerial
				displays;
(13) "Fair association"
				means an association organized for the purpose of promoting, encouraging,
				improving and exhibiting agricultural and mechanical products;
(14) "Finale rack" or "aboveground rack"
				means a row of closely spaced mortars with an inside diameter of up to 6
				inches, held in a wooden frame, and similar to a boxed finale;
(15) "Fireworks" shall have the meaning
				ascribed to it in Section
				29-356
				of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(16) "Fusee" means a friction match with a
				bulbous head not easily blown out;
(17) "Ground display piece" means a
				pyrotechnic device that functions on the ground, including fountains, Roman
				candles, wheels and set pieces;
(18) "HDPE" means high density
				polyethylene;
(19) "Inhabited
				building" means a building or structure regularly used in whole or in part as a
				place of human habitation, including any church, school, store, passenger
				station, airport terminal for passengers or other building or structure where
				people are accustomed to congregate or assemble, but excluding any building or
				structure occupied in connection with the manufacture of fireworks;
(20) "Lift charge" means the part of an
				aerial shell which actually lifts the shell into the air;
(21) "Mortar" means a metal, HDPE, fiber
				reinforced epoxy or heavy cardboard tube from which aerial shells are
				fired;
(22) "Operator" means the
				holder of a certificate of competency who fires off, discharges, or deflagrates
				fireworks or special effects;
(23)
				"Permit" means a written license, issued by the State Fire Marshal, for the
				display of fireworks or special effects;
(24) "Port fire" means a long tube containing
				slow-burning pyrotechnic composition that is sometimes used to ignite fireworks
				at outdoor fireworks displays;
(25)
				"Potential landing area" means the area over which aerial shells are fired and
				do not normally burst;
(26)
				"Pyrotechnics" means the display of fireworks;
(27) "Pyrotechnic composition" means any
				combination of chemical elements or chemical compounds capable of burning
				independently of the oxygen and atmosphere;
(28) "Pyrotechnic device" means any
				combination of materials, including pyrotechnic compositions that, by the
				agency of fire, produce an audible, visual, mechanical or thermal
				effect;
(29) "Quick match" means a
				black match encased in a loose fitting paper sheath for instantaneous
				burning;
(30) "Ready box" means a
				storage container for aerial fireworks, such as mines, comets and shells, at
				the site of a fireworks display.
(31) "Safety cap" means a paper tube that is
				placed over the end of the fuse of an aerial shell to protect it from
				accidental ignition;
(32) "Safety
				fallout zone" means potential landing area;
(33) "Shell" or "aerial" means a cylindrical
				or spherical cartridge containing pyrotechnic composition, a long fuse, and a
				black powder lift charge;
(34)
				"Special effects" means any article containing pyrotechnic composition
				manufactured and assembled, designed, or discharged in connection with
				television, theater, or motion picture productions, which may or may not be
				presented before live audiences. The definition of special effects may also
				encompass other articles containing any pyrotechnic composition used for
				education, recreation or entertainment purposes, which may or may not be
				presented before live audiences, indoors or outdoors;
(35) "Stage" means a partially enclosed
				portion of an assembly building which is designed or used for the presentation
				of displays, demonstrations, or other entertainment wherein scenery, drops, or
				other effects may be installed or used, and where the distance between the top
				of the proscenium opening and the ceiling above the stage is more than 5
				feet;
(36) "Standard dimensional
				ratio" or "SDR" means the numerical designation of the formula used to
				determine the inside diameter of high density polyethylene by dividing the
				outside diameter by the wall thickness; and
(37) "Static set piece" means a ground
				display attached to a frame and connected with quick match for simultaneous
				ignition.