Chapter 56 — EXPLOSIVES AND FIREWORKS
California Fire Code (Title 24, Part 9) · 2022 edition · updated 2026-09-10 · California
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(Matrix Adoption Tables are nonregulatory, intended only as an aid to the code user.
See Chapter 1 for state agency authority and building applications.)
| Adopting Agency | BSC | BSC- CG |
SFM | HCD | DSA | OSHPD | BSCC | DPH | AGR | DWR | CEC | CA | SL | SLC | |||||||||
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| Adopting Agency | BSC | BSC- CG |
T-24 | T-19* | 1 | 2 | 1/AC | AC | SS | 1 | 1R | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Adopt Entire Chapter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adopt Entire Chapter as amended (amended sections listed below) |
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| Adopt only those sections that are listed below |
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| [California Code of Regulations, Title 19, Division 1] |
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| Chapter / Section | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5601.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5601.1.3 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5601.1.4 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5601.2.2 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5601.2.3 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5601.2.4 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5601.3.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5602.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1559.3] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1559.9] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1559.16] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1559.18] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1559.20] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1559.21] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5603.2 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Table 5604.3 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Table 5604.5.2(1) | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5604.7.5.4 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5604.7.8 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5604.7.10 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5604.8.4 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5604.10.3 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5604.11 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1571] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1571.1] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1571.2] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1571.3] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1571.4] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1571.5] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1571.6] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1571.7] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5606.6 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1574.1] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1574.2] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1574.3] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1574.4] | X |
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CHAPTER 56 – EXPLOSIVES AND FIREWORKS—continued
| Adopting Agency | BSC | BSC- CG |
SFM | HCD | DSA | OSHPD | BSCC | DPH | AGR | DWR | CEC | CA | SL | SLC | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adopting Agency | BSC | BSC- CG |
T-24 | T-19* | 1 | 2 | 1/AC | AC | SS | 1 | 1R | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Adopt Entire Chapter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adopt Entire Chapter as amended (amended sections listed below) |
X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adopt only those sections that are listed below |
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| [California Code of Regulations, Title 19, Division 1] |
X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chapter / Section | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1574.5] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1575] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1575.1] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1575.2] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5607.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5607.9.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5607.9.2 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5608.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5608.1.1 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §980 - §1006] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5610 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1010 - §1015] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5611 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1020 - §1028] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5612 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1030 - §1039] | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5613 | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| [T-19 §1045 - §1046] | X |
- The California Code of Regulations (CCR), Title 19, Division 1 provisions that are found in the California Fire Code are a reprint from the current CCR, Title 19, Division 1 text for the code user’s convenience only. The scope, applicability and appeals procedures of CCR, Title 19, Division I remain the same.
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CHAPTER 56
EXPLOSIVES AND FIREWORKS
User note:
About this chapter: Chapter 56 prescribes minimum requirements for the safe manufacture, storage, handling and use of explosives, ammu- nition and blasting agents for commercial and industrial occupancies. These provisions are intended to protect the general public, emergency responders and individuals who handle explosives. It also regulates the manufacturing, retail sale, display and wholesale distribution of fire- works; establishes the requirements for obtaining approval to manufacture, store, sell, discharge or conduct a public display; and references national standards for regulations governing manufacture, storage and public displays.
5609.1 General. Where the display or temporary storage of¶
fireworks 1.4G (consumer fireworks) is allowed by Section 5601.1.3, Exception 4, such display or storage shall comply with the applicable requirements of NFPA 1124.
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