on July 4 as well as on the Saturdays and Sundays immediately following and preceding. Fireworks will be allowed between the hours of 9 a.m.
Use shall also be limited to between the hours of 9 a.m.
This means that, as long as someone is on their own property, or has permission of the property owner, they can shoot off fireworks in the City of Van Meter between June 1 and July 8 of this year, as well as between Dec. “Other than that, we’ve shot fireworks in Iowa illegally for years… I’ve never understood the hubbub.” “It’s just an easy way for me to tell 15- and 16-year-olds ‘no, you can’t be doing that because you don’t have adults around,’” Daggett said. Van Meter Public Safety Director, Bill Daggett, said that he wanted the age restriction in the ordinance to “stop the running bottle rocket wars” between teenagers. It is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to purchase or use fireworks without adult supervision, while the state law says only that anyone under the age of 18 cannot purchase them. The use of fireworks will be legal in the City of Van Meter as is condoned in the recently passed fireworks law by the Iowa Legislature earlier this year, but with one restriction added. The Council took action on an ordinance, waiving the second and third readings, clarifying the law on the use of fireworks. The Van Meter City Council met in its regular monthly session on Thursday, June 15 at the Veterans Reception Center.