§132D-14  Penalty.  (a)  Any person:

(1)  Importing aerial devices, display fireworks, orarticles pyrotechnic without having a valid license under section 132D-7 shallbe guilty of a class C felony;

(2)  Purchasing, possessing, setting off, igniting, ordischarging aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic withouta valid permit under sections 132D-10 and 132D-16, or storing, selling, orpossessing aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic without avalid license under section 132D-7:

(A)  If the total weight of the aerial devices,display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic is twenty-five pounds or more, shallbe guilty of a class C felony; or

(B)  If the total weight of the aerial devices,display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic is less than twenty-five pounds,shall be guilty of a misdemeanor;

(3)  Who transfers or sells aerial devices, displayfireworks, or articles pyrotechnic to a person who does not have a valid permitunder sections 132D-10 and 132D-16, shall be guilty of a class C felony; and

(4)  Who removes or extracts the pyrotechnic contentsfrom any fireworks or articles pyrotechnic and uses the contents to constructfireworks, articles pyrotechnic, or a fireworks or articles pyrotechnic relateddevice shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b)  Except as provided in subsection (a) or asotherwise specifically provided for in this chapter, any person violating anyother provision of this chapter, shall be fined not more than $2,000 for eachviolation.

(c)  The court shall collect the fines imposedin subsections (a) and (b) for violating this chapter and of the finescollected shall pay twenty per cent to the State and eighty per cent to thecounty in which the fine was imposed which shall be expended by the county forlaw enforcement purposes. [L 1994, c 180, pt of §1; am L 2000, c 233, §12; am L2006, c 183, §16]