Taylor, MI Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)
Key Facts
- Legal window
- Day before/of/after holiday, 8 a.m.-midnight
- New Year's extra hour
- Midnight to 1:00 a.m.
- Minimum age
- 18 to discharge consumer fireworks
- Enforcing officials
- Police Chief and Fire Chief
- Maximum fine
- $500.00 civil infraction
Summary
Consumer fireworks may only go off in the City of Taylor the day before, the day of, and the day after a national holiday, between 8:00 a.m. and midnight, under Taylor City Code § 22-97(b). Discharging them outside that window, or letting a minor use them, is a municipal civil infraction.
(b)General prohibition on ignition, discharge and use of consumer fireworks; exception. No person shall ignite, discharge or use fireworks within the city at any time, except that:(1)Fireworks may be discharged in strict compliance with any permit issued by the city in accordance with the Act.(2)Consumer fireworks may be discharged only on the day before, the day of, and the day after, a national holiday, but only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 midnight, except on New Years' Day, when consumer fireworks may also be discharged between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 1:00 a.m. ... (g)Penalty.(1)A violation of this section is a municipal civil infraction, punishable by a civil fine of not more than $500.00, plus any costs, damages and expenses as provided in section 1-13 of this Code.
Full Breakdown
Taylor City Code § 22-97(b) bans igniting, discharging or using fireworks anywhere in the city at any time except in two situations: under a permit issued in accordance with the Michigan Fireworks Safety Act, or as consumer fireworks discharged only on the day before, the day of, and the day after a listed national holiday, between 8:00 a.m. and midnight, with an extra hour on New Year's Day running from midnight to 1:00 a.m. Low-impact fireworks, meaning ground and handheld sparkling devices under APA Standard 87-1, are not limited to that holiday window.
Subsection (c) layers on additional bans: no consumer fireworks on public, school, church or private property without the owner's written permission; none by a person under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, a restriction that also reaches low-impact fireworks; none by a minor under 18; and no adult may knowingly let a minor discharge them. Novelties, such as toy caps and flitter sparklers under 87-1, 3.2, are excluded from regulation entirely under subsection (d). The Taylor Police Chief, the Fire Chief and their designees enforce the section under subsection (e), and an enforcing official may seize fireworks as evidence of a violation under subsection (f).
Violations & Fines
A violation of § 22-97 is a municipal civil infraction punishable by a fine of up to $500.00 plus costs, damages and expenses under § 1-13 of the Code. The city may also destroy fireworks seized as evidence once the case is resolved, and a person found responsible must reimburse the city for the cost of storing, disposing of or destroying the seized fireworks.
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