San Angelo, TX Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

002 makes it unlawful for anyone to have, keep, store, use, manufacture, assemble, sell, handle, receive, offer for sale, or possess with intent to sell fireworks of any description within the city. The ordinance defines fireworks broadly to include firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, roman candles, sparklers, fountains, helicopter-type rockets, colored bomb shells, and any device that produces a visible or audible effect through combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation. Lawmakers declared the mere presence of prohibited fireworks within the article's effective area a nuisance. The ban is not confined to the city limits: subsection (c)(4) extends it 5,000 feet beyond the corporate boundary, except where that buffer overlaps another municipality.

Two narrow exceptions survive. Toy pistol caps and paper caps containing 25/100 grain or less of explosive compound remain legal at all times, as do railway fuses, signal flares, and illuminating torches limited to 100 grams of pyrotechnic composition. A public fireworks display is legal only if the fire department chief issues a permit for a supervised demonstration; the city has also adopted article 9205, section 10 of the Texas Revised Civil Statutes to govern how licensed displays are run, and any unfired fireworks left after a display must be disposed of safely and immediately.

The fire marshal or a deputy has standing authority to seize, remove, or dispose of any fireworks stock offered for sale, stored, or held in violation of the article, at the violator's expense. 009, and the city may also sue for an injunction to stop the storing, manufacturing, or selling of illegal fireworks. 009(b) caps most convictions at $2,000 per offense rather than the standard $500 ceiling, and each day of a continuing violation is charged as a separate offense.