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An Act To Change the Time Restriction on the Use of Fireworks
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 8 MRSA §223-A, sub-§8, ¶A, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 416, §5 and affected by §9, is amended to read:
 
A. Consumer fireworks may be used between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 10:009:00 p.m., except that on the following dates they may be used between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. the following day:
 
(1) July 4th;
 
(2) December 31st; and
 
(3) The weekends immediately before and after July 4th and December 31st.
 
SUMMARY
This bill reduces the permissible hours when fireworks may be used from between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. to between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.