Section 34-37-2 - License required for sale of fireworks--Application--Fee--Duration--Display.
34-37-2. License required for sale of fireworks--Application--Fee--Duration--Display. No person may sell, hold for sale, or offer for sale, as wholesaler or retailer any fireworks in this state unless such person has first obtained a license as a wholesaler or retailer. Application for a license as wholesaler or retailer shall be made to the Department of Public Safety on forms to be prescribed by it. Each application shall be accompanied by the required fee, which shall be five hundred dollars for a wholesaler's license, and twenty-five dollars for a retailer's license. Each application for a license as a retailer in any year must be received by the department no later than the fifteenth day of June of that year. Any application received after that date shall be denied by the department and returned to the applicant together with any application fee submitted. The license expires on the fourteenth day of June annually and is renewable annually. The license shall at all times be displayed at the place of business of the holder thereof. The funds received under the provisions of this section shall be deposited in the general fund.
Source: SL 1964, ch 31, §§ 3, 4; SL 1977, ch 190, § 101; SL 1982, ch 18, § 101; SL 1998, ch 213, § 3; SL 2003, ch 272, §§ 20, 121.