Jeremy Pelzer
cleveland.com
(MCT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio —The Ohio Senate on Wednesday passed revamped legislation to legalize the use of consumer-grade fireworks on or around most holidays after a similar bill was vetoed by Gov. Mike DeWine last summer.
Should House Bill 172 clear a final House vote without further changes, the governor will likely sign the legislation, according to a spokesman.
The legislation, which passed the Ohio Senate 26-5 on Wednesday, would take effect July 1, 2022, just before the Fourth of July weekend.
在曲线nt law, residents maylegally buy俄亥俄州的大多数常见或“消费者”烟花的形式，但它要求他们在48小时内将这些烟花带出该州，这一规则几乎是普遍吹捧的。
The bill would eliminate that 48-hour rule and allow the public to use fireworks from the days around July 4, Diwali and New Year’s Eve, over Memorial and Labor Day weekends, and on New Year’s Day, Juneteenth, Cinco De Mayo and Lunar New Year.
地方政府仍将被允许禁止烟火，或者只允许在某些时候引发它们。喝酒，使用受控物质或未经许可将其放在其财产上时，使用烟花是非法的。
该措施还将对烟花销售征收4％的费用，其收益将用于消防员培训并增加烟花法的执行。烟花经销商必须免费为客户提供安全眼镜。
The bill would allow fireworks retailers to increase the size of their showrooms from 5,000 square feet under current law to 7,500 square feet. Any showrooms larger than 5,000 square feet would have to be equipped with a sprinkler system that meets certain standards.
The last two provisions seek to fix issues that DeWine raised whenhe vetoed a similarly worded fireworks legalization billlast July that would have allowed showrooms as large as 10,000 square feet and didn’t include any sprinkler requirements.
In his veto message, the governor cited studies about fireworks store safety features that were done in the wake ofa 1996 explosion at a Southern Ohio fireworks storethat killed nine and injured 11.
DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney said the changes the lawmakers made in HB172 “addresses and alleviates” the concerns that the governor had with the prior bill. If the bill passes as currently written, Tierney said, DeWine “would likely sign that.”
HB172的一部分将立即生效，将从今年12月31日至2022年底上扩大有关新的或转让的烟花制造或批发商许可证的国家暂停。
While no one spoke during Wednesday’s session against the bill, the five senators who voted “no” included Republican state Sen. Niraj Antani of the Dayton area, as well as Democratic state Sens. Hearcel Craig of Columbus, Tina Maharath of suburban Columbus, Vernon Sykes of Akron, and Sandra Williams of Cleveland.
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