Fireworks and Computers
Notes from the Dec. 7 Gulfport City Council Meeting By Jim McConville
Gulfport Council voted to pay $25,000 for New Year’s Eve fireworks.
While most of the Dec. 7 Gulfport City Council meeting focused on whether or not the city would arrest a homeless man in the park (see related story, p. 4), city council spent some time talking about fireworks and computers. Fireworks Gulfport council voted to limit the sale and use of fireworks. The ordinance, which council passed unanimously, would set a cutoff time for
lighting fireworks on state-designated holidays (this includes New Year’s Eve.) If the ordinance passes on its second reading, this means no more fireworks after 11 p.m. on those holidays. Last month, Vice Mayor April Thanos asked the council to consider amending Chapter 14 of the city’s code, hoping to apply the city’s noise ordinance to fireworks. Council agreed, and now, on the three state-sanctioned days allowing fireworks, people
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must stop lighting fireworks by 11 p.m. or face a noise ordinance violation. Chapter 14 prohibits the sale and use of fireworks in city limits. However, the state now allows fireworks sale and use on New Year’s Eve, Day, and the Fourth of July, and on those days, residents may light fireworks –provided they stop by 11 p.m. Fireworks remain illegal at all other times. In other fireworks-related news,
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