Vancouver Fire By-Law Section 5.8.2.
Fireworks
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5.8.2.1 Permits
1) The Fire Chief may by permit regulate the possession, sale and discharge of fireworks.
5.8.2.2 General
1) No person shall offer for sale or sell fireworks without a permit from the Fire Chief.
2) No person shall offer for sale, sell, give or furnish fireworks to a person under the age of 19 years.
3) No person shall point or direct a firework at any person, animal, building or motor vehicle where such firework is in the process of exploding or detonating, and where it is capable of projecting or discharging a charge or pyrotechnical effect more than 1 m.
4) Despite anything to the contrary in this By-law, a person under 19 years of age must not possess or discharge fireworks
5) Despite anything to the contrary in this By-Law, a person must not offer for sale, sell, dispose of, possess, or discharge fireworks that produce noise without an accompanying light display that consists of more than a single flash of light.
6) If a person is holding fireworks in violation of this By-Law:
a) any member of the Fire Department or Police Department may seize and dispose of such fireworks, and
b) the city is not liable to pay any compensation to such person for such fireworks
5.8.2.3. Family Fireworks
1) A person must not offer for sale, sell, or dispose of:
a) firecrackers, bottle rockets, or roman candles, or
b) family fireworks, other than firecrackers, bottle rockets or roman candles, to any person except a family fireworks permit holder, and except during the period from and including October 25th to and including October 31st.
2) A person who sells or disposes of family fireworks to a family fireworks permit holder must;
a) at the time of the sale or disposition, examine the family fireworks permit holder's family fireworks permit to ensure that it is current,
b) require the family fireworks permit holder to produce two pieces of identification that corroborate the name of the family fireworks permit holder on the family fireworks permit, and examine such identification to corroborate such name, and
c) comply with all conditions on the family fireworks permit that apply to the sale or disposition of family fireworks.
3) A person must not possess or discharge family fireworks, except if that person is a family fireworks permit holder, and complies with the requirements of this By-law and all conditions on the family fireworks permit.
4) A person who is at least 19 years of age may apply to the Fire Chief for a family fireworks permit to discharge family fireworks, and must
a) submit to the Fire Chief a completed family fireworks permit application in the form prescribed by the Fire Chief which includes details of the two pieces of identification referred to in Clause 5.8.2.3.(2)(b),
b) answer correctly 100% the questions posed on a quiz, prepared by the Fire Chief, about the safe handling of family fireworks.
c) If the discharge of family fireworks under the family fireworks permit is to occur on property not owned by the applicant, an authorization signed by the property owner or property owner's agent, and
d) such other information or material as this By-law or the Fire Chief may require.
5) If
a) the applicant fails to comply with the requirements of Sentence (4),
b) the applicant provides false or inaccurate information on the application for the family fireworks permit,
c) the applicant fails the quiz referred to in Clause 4(b),
d) the Fire Chief does not approve the proposed location for the discharge of fireworks, or
e) this By-law otherwise authorizes the Fire Chief to refuse to issue a permit, the Fire Chief may refuse to issue the family fireworks permit applied for under Sentence (4).
6) The Fire Chief may issue a family fireworks permit, and may impose conditions on that family fireworks permit including the following
a) the location at which the discharge of fireworks under the family fireworks permit may take place,
b) the days and times the discharge of family fireworks may occur at that location,
c) the fire safety precautions the family fireworks permit holder must take in connection with the discharge of fireworks under the family fireworks permit, and
d) safe storage of the family fireworks that the family fireworks permit holder intends to discharge under the family fireworks permit.
7) A family fireworks permit holder must not possess
a) firecrackers, bottle rockets, or roman candles, or
b) family fireworks, other than firecrackers, bottle rockets or roman candles, except during the period from and including October 25th to and including October 31st.
8) A family fireworks permit holder must not discharge
a) firecrackers, bottle rockets, or roman candles, or
b) family fireworks, other than firecrackers, bottle rockets or roman candles, except on October 31st or October 30th, if October 31st falls on a Sunday.
9) If
a) a family fireworks permit holder violates any applicable law or any condition of the family fireworks permit,
b) a family fireworks permit holder acts in such a manner as to endanger property or public safety,
c) environmental or weather conditions are such that the discharge of fireworks under the family fireworks permit would endanger property or public safety, or
d) this By-law otherwise authorizes the Fire Chief to revoke a permit, the Fire Chief may revoke the family fireworks permit.
10) A family fireworks permit is
a) valid only for the discharge of fireworks at the location and during the days and times specified in the family fireworks permit, and
b) not transferable.
11) The Fire Chief may establish an Internet site for use by applicants for a family fireworks discharge permit which may include submission of the application, taking of the test, and issuance of the permit.
12) Despite anything to the contrary in this By-law, a person must not offer for sale, sell, dispose of, possess, or discharge family fireworks that produce noise without an accompanying light display that consists of more than a single flash of light."
5.8.2.4. Display Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Special Effects
1) No person shall discharge display fireworks or a pyrotechnic special effects except as authorized by a permit issued by the Fire Chief or member of the Fire Department authorized by the Fire Chief.
2) Applications must be made in person to the Fire chief or member of the Fire Department authorized by the Fire Chief
a) by the fireworks supervisor responsible for the discharging of the display fireworks, or
b) by the pyrotechnic special effects technician responsible for the discharging of the pyrotechnic special effect.