{"id":194603,"date":"2025-07-07T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=194603"},"modified":"2025-07-07T21:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T02:04:56","slug":"state-clarifies-ohio-home-fireworks-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/07\/07\/state-clarifies-ohio-home-fireworks-law\/","title":{"rendered":"State clarifies Ohio home fireworks law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For home fireworks displays, was this past weekend, July 5-6, considered the final permissible period or is it this weekend, July 12-13?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohio law states home fireworks displays are allowed from 4-11 p.m. July 3, 4 and 5 and the weekend immediately after July 4. According to Ohio Fire Marshal Public Information Officer Jarrod Clay, since July 4 was on a Friday this year, July 5-6 counted as the weekend immediately after the Independence Day holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next holiday for legal home fireworks is Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clay noted the penalty for discharging consumer fireworks on dates or times that are not approved is a first degree misdemeanor, punishable by a $1,000 fine and\/or up to six months in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff For home fireworks displays, was this past weekend, July 5-6, considered the final permissible period or is it this weekend, July 12-13? Ohio law states home fireworks displays are allowed from 4-11 p.m. July 3, 4 and 5 and the weekend immediately after July 4. According to Ohio Fire Marshal Public Information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-05 01:55:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194604,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194603\/revisions\/194604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}