Charles County, MD Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

" Even there, § 297-92C declares a long list of uses "expressly prohibited," not merely discouraged or subject to special exception: arsenals, blast furnaces, boiler works, distillation of bones, landfills, fat rendering, forge plants, and incinerators among them. Item (10) extends the ban to manufacturing more than two dozen specific hazardous products, and subsection (f) names "explosives, fireworks or gunpowder" outright. The same list bars manufacturing acids, insecticides, matches, tar products, and petroleum refining or storage beyond tank-car quantities, so fireworks sit alongside the county's other most dangerous industrial processes rather than being singled out as a stand-alone fire-safety measure.

Because the prohibition is written into the special-regulations framework rather than the Table of Permissible Uses' special-exception (SE) column, a fireworks manufacturer cannot apply for a variance or special exception to locate in Charles County; the use is barred outright in every zoning district, including IH itself. A property owner or business found operating such a facility faces the chapter's general enforcement scheme at § 297-4: the Zoning Officer, County Commissioners, or an adjoining property owner may seek an injunction or other court order to force compliance, and the County Attorney prosecutes civil zoning citations, with each day the violation continues counted as a separate offense.