Flint, MI — Flint City Hall will be closed on Thursday, July 4, 2024, in observance of Independence Day.
City Hall will reopen on Friday, July 5, 2024, with normal business hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Priority Waste trash, compost, and recycling collection will be delayed by one day due to the holiday for Thursday, July 4, 2024, and Friday, July 5, 2024, collection areas only. The normal collection schedule will resume the following week.
To celebrate Independence Day, city officials will present a fireworks display at dusk, visible from Downtown Flint looking west toward Chevy Commons.
As for consumer fireworks, the City of Flint’s fireworks ordinance allows fireworks only on the day before, the day of, and the day after major holidays. Fireworks are banned between midnight and 8 a.m. State law also permits fireworks from June 29 to July 2, from 11 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. on those days.
Violation of the City’s fireworks ordinance is punishable by a $500 fine and seizure of fireworks.
Flint’s Code of Ordinances states, “A person shall not ignite, discharge, or use consumer fireworks on public property, school property, church property, or the property of another person without the organization’s or person’s express permission to use consumer fireworks on those premises.”