Taunton, MA Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

Chapter 250, Article II sets license fees for keeping, storing, manufacturing or selling regulated materials in Taunton: Section 250-8 requires anyone applying for such a license covering rockets and fireworks to pay $50 upon issuance, the same rate charged for a gunpowder or dynamite license, while a crude petroleum storage or sale license runs from $25 for private keeping up to $200 for commercial tank capacity over 50,000 gallons. Renewing the certificate of use and occupancy tied to any of these licenses costs half the original license fee under Section 250-9.

Separately, Article V, Section 250-12 sets the Fire Department's own fee schedule for inspections, permits and services: a fireworks permit costs $50, plus another $50 to inspect the display site itself, and a stand-alone rocket permit costs $10. That same fee schedule prices related Fire Department permits the City groups alongside fireworks, including a $50 flammable materials permit, a $50 blasting permit, and $25 for a black powder or gunpowder permit ($50 for a commercial permit), giving a fuller picture of how the Department prices explosive-material activity across the board.

These are the only local fees involved: Massachusetts law otherwise bars retail sale and private use of consumer fireworks statewide, so Taunton's ordinance addresses only the licensed keeping, storage, manufacture and sale side under Section 250-8 and the Fire Department's display and rocket permits under Section 250-12, rather than a broader ban.