Pender County, NC Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

Section 28-29 makes it unlawful for any person to possess, display, use, set off or attempt to ignite any firecracker, fireworks, smoke bombs, rockets, black powder guns or other pyrotechnics within a park without written permission from the director of parks and recreation or a designee and permits from the local fire marshal, and the section specifies that permission will only be granted for community firework events, foreclosing private or personal displays even with both approvals. Section 28-19 confines that ban, like the rest of Article II, to parks owned, operated or maintained by the county, so the code does not reach fireworks use on private property or public roads elsewhere in unincorporated Pender County; it sits alongside § 28-35, which similarly limits fires in parks to department-approved grills under the care of someone over 16.

Enforcement rests with park personnel, their designees, and any authorized law enforcement officer under § 28-48, working alongside the fire marshal who issues the underlying pyrotechnics permit.