By URIEL C. QUILINGUING
Contributing Editor
ALL firecrackers, either found illegal or deemed legal, would be seized by authorities anywhere and anytime here since a city government-declared ban on gunpowder-laden bangers is in effect. However, display, distribution, sale, and use of pyrotechnic devices for fireworks is permitted albeit regulated.
“Selling of pyrotechnic devices will start on Dec. 22 and will end on Dec. 31,” said the interior and local government official who was appointed by Moreno as TTF head, explaining further that these flares should only be displayed at the rotunda area in barangay Nazareth and in selected business establishments.
She said they would be very thorough in scrutinizing the quality of fireworks materials, locally produced and imported if these carry the Department of Trade and Industry required product standard (PS) stickers.
Last year, the TFF confiscated 64 boxes of illegal firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices, without PS stickers, and burned these after the new year in full public view.
Selling of firecrackers was allowed then but not to minors since they are prohibited to buy and use these gun-powder loaded noise-makers under City Ordinance No. 13394-2018, otherwise known as the city’s Children’s Welfare Code.
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