Brookhaven, GA Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

Article VII of Chapter 12, Fire Prevention, is the fireworks article in the Code of the City of Brookhaven, Georgia. Section 12-177 is the operative rule: unless state law or another part of the article allows it, no person, firm, corporation, association or partnership can offer fireworks for sale at retail or wholesale, use or explode them or cause them to be exploded, or possess, manufacture or store them within the city. The ban reaches both consumer fireworks and fireworks, which Section 12-176 defines separately.

Consumer fireworks are small devices with restricted amounts of pyrotechnic composition that meet Consumer Product Safety Commission, Department of Transportation and American Pyrotechnics Association standards, and the definition adds Roman candles. Both definitions exclude model rockets and model rocket engines, toy pistol paper caps averaging 0.25 grains or less of explosive mixture, wire or wood sparklers of 100 grams or less of mixture per item, snakes and glow worms, smoke devices, and trick noise makers such as party peppers, snappers and drop pops. Where a city definition conflicts with O.C.G.A. § 25-10-1 et seq., Section 12-176 says the state definition controls.

Section 12-178 is printed as Reserved, with the note that it was superseded by state law. Section 12-179 allows public exhibitions or displays of fireworks if they are properly permitted under O.C.G.A. ch. 25-10. The article contains no separate city permit procedure for displays, so the state chapter supplies those terms. Section 12-180 sets the penalty for any violation of the article.