Sec. 3. The fire prevention and building safety commission shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to implement a statewide code concerning displays of indoor pyrotechnics. The rules:

(1) must require that a certificate of insurance be issued that provides general liability coverage of at least five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the injury or death of any number of persons in any one (1) occurrence and five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for property damage in any one (1) occurrence by an intended display of indoor pyrotechnics arising from any acts of the operator of the display or the operator's agents, employees, or subcontractors;

(2) must require the person intending to present the display to give, at least twenty four (24) hours before the time of the display, written notice of the intended display to the chief of the responding fire department of the location proposed for the display of the indoor pyrotechnics and to include with the written notice a certification from the person intending to display the indoor pyrotechnics that the display will be made in accordance with:

(A) the rules adopted under this section; and

(B) any ordinance or resolution adopted under section 4 of this chapter;

(3) must include and adopt NFPA 1126, Standard for the Use of Pyrotechnics before a Proximate Audience, 2001 Edition, published by the National Fire Protection Association, 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, Massachusetts 02169;

(4) must be amended to adopt any subsequent edition of NFPA Standard 1126, including addenda, within eighteen (18) months after the effective date of the subsequent edition; and

(5) may provide for amendments to NFPA Standard 1126 as a condition of the adoption under subdivisions (3) and (4).

As added by P.L.25-2004, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.1-2006, SEC.348; P.L.101-2006, SEC.30.