California Code, Health and Safety Code - HSC § 12726

(A) Use by fire and law enforcement agencies for safety, education, training, testing, and enforcement purposes.

(B) Use by the Office of the State Fire Marshal and the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission for regulatory compliance testing and comparison.

(C) Held for testing, comparison, or disposal in the interest of public safety, if identified and seized pursuant to a recall issued by the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission.

(D) Reclassification by the Office of the State Fire Marshal from a consumer product to a hazardous waste, and disposed of in accordance with applicable laws governing hazardous waste.

(E) Deconstruction or alteration by the arson and bomb unit of the Office of the State Fire Marshal, local public safety bomb squads, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or the Federal Bureau of Investigations, for purposes of testing, as it relates to the investigation of criminal, terrorist, or civil disobedience acts.

(F) Held for investigation, as it relates to counterfeit or illicit seals of the State Fire Marshal, product packaging, labeling, coding, inspection labeling, manufacturer labeling, or importer or exporter labeling.

(G) Held by the Office of the State Fire Marshal as evidence for local, state, or federal criminal prosecution.

(H) Use by the arson and bomb unit of the Office of the State Fire Marshal for fireworks education, testing, disposal, enforcement, and investigations not addressed in subparagraphs (A) to (G), inclusive.