Redlands, CA Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

9 to the locally amended California Fire Code, adopted under Ordinance 2997 in 2025. The section is a blanket prohibition: except as otherwise expressly provided in the code, no person may possess, keep, store, use, shoot, discharge, set off, ignite, explode, manufacture, sell, offer to sell, give, transport, or improperly dispose of any fireworks, whether classified as dangerous fireworks or the "safe and sane" variety sold elsewhere in California. Subsection A makes it unlawful to possess, offer for sale, or store fireworks except under a permit issued by the California State Fire Marshal or the Redlands Fire Chief.

Subsection B extends liability to property owners and tenants: it is unlawful for them to allow fireworks possession, sale, use, or discharge on their property once they know or should know it is happening, meaning a landlord or homeowner can be cited even without personally lighting anything. Subsection C authorizes the Fire Chief and designated representatives to seize, take, and remove any fireworks found in the city and to charge the person from whom they were seized. Subsection D makes every person who causes, aids, abets, or conceals a fireworks violation guilty of violating the Fire Code in their own right, with each day a violation is committed, continued, permitted, or maintained charged as a separate misdemeanor offense.

570 further preserves any additional penalties available under the state Health and Safety Code or Penal Code, so a Redlands fireworks case can also be prosecuted under state explosives and arson statutes.