Palm Springs, CA Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

510(o)(3), prohibits manufacturing, selling, possessing, storing, handling or using "safe and sane" fireworks (as defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 12529) and "dangerous fireworks" (as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 12505) anywhere within city limits. That sweeps in the state-licensed "safe and sane" fireworks that California law lets many other cities sell around the Fourth of July; Palm Springs bans them alongside the more hazardous "dangerous" category. The only carve-out is a fireworks display run under a permit issued by the Palm Springs Fire Department, governed separately by Fire Code Section 5608, which requires displays to be electrically fired and requires applicants to submit a diagram showing the discharge point, a fallout area calculated at 75 feet per inch of shell size, nearby buildings, roads, overhead lines, and the line behind which the audience is restrained.

2 gives enforcement teeth: any authorized Fire Code Official, peace officer, or other city official empowered to enforce the Municipal Code may seize, take or remove prohibited fireworks and explosives at the violator's own expense. A companion provision, Section 5615, separately bans unpermitted "explosives" as defined under Title 19 of the California Code of Regulations Section 1550. 140, which defaults to a misdemeanor unless downgraded to an infraction by the city attorney or a citing officer.