LD1526 • 2025

An Act to Change the Permissible Hours and Penalities Pertaining to the Use of Consumer Fireworks

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Sponsor: Senator Anne Beebe-Center
Last action: 2025-05-21
Official status: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act to Change the Permissible Hours and Penalities Pertaining to the Use of Consumer Fireworks

An Act to Change the Permissible Hours and Penalities Pertaining to the Use of Consumer Fireworks Sponsor: Senator Anne Beebe-Center Reference committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

An Act to Change the Permissible Hours and Penalities Pertaining to the Use of Consumer Fireworks Sponsor: Senator Anne Beebe-Center Reference committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

2025-05-21 Senate
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
2025-05-20 Committee
Reported Out; ONTP
2025-05-14 Committee
Work Session Held
2025-05-14 Committee
Voted; ONTP
2025-04-08 House
The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY . In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
2025-04-08 Committee
Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Change the Permissible Hours and Penalities Pertaining to the Use of Consumer Fireworks
Sponsor:
Senator Anne Beebe-Center
Reference committee:
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1526
S.P. 610 In Senate, April 8, 2025
An Act to Change the Permissible Hours and Penalities Pertaining
to the Use of Consumer Fireworks
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered
printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator BEEBE-CENTER of Knox. (BY REQUEST)

Page 1 - 132LR1090(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 8 MRSA §223-A, sub-§8, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 416, §5 and affected
3 by §9, is amended to read:
48. Restrictions on use of consumer fireworks. The use of consumer fireworks is
5 governed by this subsection.
6 A. Consumer fireworks may be used between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.
7 9:00 p.m., except that on the following dates they may be used between the hours of
8 9:00 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. the following day:
9 (1) July 4th;
10 (2) December 31st; and
11 (3) The weekends immediately before and after July 4th and December 31st.
12 B. A person may use consumer fireworks only on that person's property or on the
13 property of a person who has consented to the use of consumer fireworks on that
14 property.
15 A person who violates this subsection commits a civil violation for which a fine of not less
16 than $50 $100 and not more than $500 $1,000, plus court costs, may be adjudged for any
17 one offense.
18SUMMARY
19 This bill changes the hours consumer fireworks may be used to provide that consumer
20 fireworks may be used from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. It also changes the minimum and
21 maximum penalties for violations related to restrictions on the use of consumer fireworks
22 to provide that the fines are not less than $100 and not more than $1,000 per offense.
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