Burlington County, NJ Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

Rule 30 sits under the FIRES. FIREWORKS heading alongside Rule 29, which allows fires only in a fireplace, fire ring, or grill the county has provided, maintained, or designated. Rule 30 carries no comparable exception: it bans possession of firecrackers, rockets, or fireworks, not just discharging them, so a visitor can already be in violation by carrying fireworks onto Parks System property before ever lighting one. Because Parks System properties close approximately one-half hour after sunset for the Mount Holly area under Rule 2, fireworks activity, which typically happens after dark, would often put a visitor in a closed park in violation of Rule 2 as well as Rule 30.

The fireworks ban stands apart from the nearby weapons prohibition in Rule 32, which separately bars air guns, slingshots, paintball guns, and other devices capable of injuring persons or wildlife; Rule 30 is focused solely on pyrotechnics. Enforcement follows the document's standard disorderly-persons framework: a violator can be ordered to leave under Rule 36, is treated as a disorderly person under Rule 37, and faces prosecution as a defiant trespasser under Rule 38 for refusing to leave. The Board of County Commissioners retains discretion under Rule 1 to modify or waive any Parks System rule, and the Rules and Regulations were first adopted May 14, 2008 by Resolution No. 328, most recently amended April 23, 2025 by Resolution No. 2025-00249.