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Fireworks legal, but not for sale yet
Bottle rockets, roman candles now OK to set off; stores cant sell until 2016
Bottle rockets
While “real” fireworks are now legal, Statesboro residents likely still will have to travel out of state to buy bottle rockets, roman candles and other fireworks that fly into the air and go boom. Georgia law, as of midnight Wednesday, allows the larger fireworks to be used in the state, but licenses to sell them won’t be issued until January 2016, said Statesboro Fire Department’s Prevention Chief Chris Colson. Temporary locations, such as the TNT tent outside Statesboro’s Wal-Mart, are not eligible to obtain a license to sell the formerly-outlawed fireworks, he said.
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