Permits, Inspections & Licensing

Permits

• Includes concerts, entertainment venues, and movie and television production sets. They are required of any municipality, fair association, amusement park, other organization, or individual.
• Applications shall be submitted to local authorities not less than 15 days prior to the date of display.
• All locally approved applications shall be submitted to the State Fire Marshal's Office at least 3 business days prior to the intended date of display.

Proximate Audience Shows

• Those that occur within a building or structure that occurs outside, before an audience closer than 75 feet to the pyrotechnics.
• Applications shall be submitted at least 10 days prior to production.
• These types of shows include pyrotechnic, flame effect, and fire performances.*​​​​

Licenses

• Display Fireworks Operator
• Apply to Wholesale/ Distribute
• To Store Display Fireworks
• Proximate Audience Operator or Apprentice Pyrotechnic Effect, Flame Effect, or Special Effects
  (including fire performers)
  • ​​​​​​​*Fire Performers: This license will include a Special Effect Operator endorsement. For new applicants, all requirements for the Proximate Audience License must be met. This includes the required endorsement form and shall be signed by 2 separate current New Hampshire licensed fire performers, to include 5 shows each. 

Inspections

• Fireworks sales outlets
• Sites and facilities for the display or storage of display fireworks, as defined in RSA 160-B:1, X.