INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mitch Daniels signed several more bills into law Tuesday, including one that will allow local governments to restrict or ban the use of fireworks except during 12 days of the year.
He also approved a bill that will prohibit “serial meetings� – separate gatherings by less than a quorum of a government board to discuss the same subject with the purpose of conducting official business.
The new fireworks law will change a law enacted last year. That law allows the use of fireworks every day from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., with an extension to midnight on holidays such as the Fourth of July and New Year’s. It requires they be shot off on the user’s property or another’s with the owner’s permission.
The new law will give counties, cities and towns local control over the use of fireworks for most days of the year. If local governments still wanted to permit their use year-round, they could. But communities where officials deemed them a problem could restrict their use.
Under the law, the use of fireworks could not be limited at the following times:
♦Between 5 p.m. and two hours after sunset June 29-30, July 1-3, July 5-9
♦Between 10 a.m. and midnight July 4
♦Between 10 a.m. on Dec. 31 and 1 a.m. Jan. 1
He also approved a bill that will prohibit “serial meetings� – separate gatherings by less than a quorum of a government board to discuss the same subject with the purpose of conducting official business.
The new fireworks law will change a law enacted last year. That law allows the use of fireworks every day from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., with an extension to midnight on holidays such as the Fourth of July and New Year’s. It requires they be shot off on the user’s property or another’s with the owner’s permission.
The new law will give counties, cities and towns local control over the use of fireworks for most days of the year. If local governments still wanted to permit their use year-round, they could. But communities where officials deemed them a problem could restrict their use.
Under the law, the use of fireworks could not be limited at the following times:
♦Between 5 p.m. and two hours after sunset June 29-30, July 1-3, July 5-9
♦Between 10 a.m. and midnight July 4
♦Between 10 a.m. on Dec. 31 and 1 a.m. Jan. 1
