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Delaware is one of the strictest fireworks states in the country. Title 16, Chapter 69 of the Delaware Code bans virtually all consumer fireworks. A 2019 amendment created a narrow exception allowing wood-stick or wire sparklers and ground-based non-aerial sparkling devices, but they may only be used on July 4, December 31, January 1, and the third day of Diwali. Aerial fireworks, firecrackers, Roman candles, and bottle rockets are illegal. Several Sussex County beach towns including Rehoboth Beach add separate municipal bans.
16 Del. C. ch. 69, §§ 6901, 6905 (Fireworks)
§ 6901. Selling or possessing fireworks; exceptions. (a) A person may not store, sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell or to use, discharge or cause to be discharged, ignited, fired, or otherwise set in action within this State, any fireworks, firecrackers, rockets, torpedoes, Roman candles, fire balloons, or other fireworks or substances of any combination d...
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