Bristol Township, PA Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

Fireworks sales in Bristol Township are a land use, Use F11 in § 205-16F, described as facilities engaged in the sale of fireworks and related apparatus. Among the district use lists printed in the code, Use F11 appears in the P-1 Planned Industrial District (Article XV, § 205-63), where it is a use permitted by special exception authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board. The use standards are specific. The facility must be licensed by the Department of Agriculture in accordance with the Commonwealth's licensing requirements.

It must be in a standalone building no larger than 12,000 square feet, from which no other uses are permitted. Storage areas must be separated by appropriately rated fire separation from wholesale or retail sale areas to which a purchaser may be admitted. The facility must be located no closer than 250 feet from any facility selling or dispensing gasoline, propane or other such flammable products, and no closer than 250 feet from any facility licensed to sell consumer fireworks. It must have a monitored burglar and fire alarm system, be served by public water and sewer, and keep hours no earlier than 9:00 a.m. and no later than 10:00 p.m. prevailing time.

Subsection (i) also requires the facility to comply in all respects with the Fireworks Law, the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act and the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code Act. The quoted text skips subsections (c) and (i), both printed in the code. The Township enforces its zoning chapter through civil enforcement proceedings under § 205-205.