{"id":609,"date":"2014-02-27T12:45:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2014-02-27T12:45:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T04:45:57","slug":"council-committee-defers-fireworks-bill-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/council-committee-defers-fireworks-bill-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Council committee defers fireworks bill \u2014 for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0013.jpg\" alt=\"001\" width=\"449\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0013.jpg 449w, https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0013-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bill allowing Oahu residents to once again set off sparklers and other novelty fireworks legally to ring New Year&#8217;s Day and the Fourth of July was deferred by the City Council Public Safety and Economic Development Committee Tuesday due to technical reasons.<br \/>\nCouncil Public Safety Chairwoman Carol Fukunaga said she expects discussion on the bill to continue at next month&#8217;s committee meeting after language concerns with the bill are addressed.<br \/>\nBill 5, introduced by Council members Ikaika Anderson and Ann Kobayashi, allows Oahu adults to buy a limited amount of sparklers and other novelty fireworks if they obtain $25 permits from the city.<br \/>\nAs with the existing permits governing common firecrackers, there would be no limit to the number of permits purchased.<br \/>\nSparklers, fountains and other novelties have been banned since the 2012 New Year&#8217;s celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill allowing Oahu residents to once again set off sparklers and other novelty fireworks legally to ring New Year&#8217;s Day and the Fourth of July was deferred by the City Council Public Safety and Economic Development Committee Tuesday due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/council-committee-defers-fireworks-bill-for-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,53,42,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fireworks-news","category-fireworks-show-photo","category-new-years","category-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}