City of Oxnard to consider sweeping fireworks ordinance that would raise fines to $2,000

Elle McCarron, assistant city attorney, told the City of Oxnard Council on the item that the City Attorney's Office would present a proposed fireworks ordinance and recommended the council "approve and introduce by title only and waive further reading." McCarron said the measure responds to more than 1,000 fireworks-related complaints and service requests the city receives each year around the July 4 holiday.

The ordinance would amend multiple sections of the municipal code, repeal an existing fireworks resolution and create a new article to establish a comprehensive framework for regulating fireworks, pyrotechnics and production effects in the city. "The Proposed Fireworks Ordinance will increase the minimum fine for each violation from 1,000 to $2,000 per occurrence," McCarron said, adding that certain violations also could be…