Venomous Laws

[BWSmith]

The laws are all changing so fast that i think my material is out of date. What are the officail laws regarding hots where you live?

Georgia:
All native GA venomous species and ssp are legal without a permit. Exotic hots take up to $0.5 million liability insurance and a permit.
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[najaboy]

Florida:
License required for all venomous reptiles.
License fee: $100/year
Prerequisite to getting license: At least two letters of reference, and at least 1,000 hours of verifiable experience working with venomous reptiles.
Enclosures: Must meet minimum size guidelines. Any enclosure housing venomous reptiles must have a lock. The exception to this is if the room itself is locked.
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[BWSmith]

Dang, I keep forgetting you are in FL now. I am most curious about the Midwest. Can you tell me the Michigan info? (I know it is not the midwest [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] )
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[Ravnos]

Venomous Laws in TX:
No permits required for exotics.
No permits required for natives, but a valid hunting license must be held for possession. Maximum of 25 specimins, 10 of a single species. One may be able to work around this by having detailed documentation as to where animals came from (assuming they weren't wild caught, which you would need the license for even if you didn't catch them) and bills of sale - but TX Parks & Wildlife still highly recommends having the hunting license which only costs $15.

Important Note: Each city also has its own laws, as does each county! The state laws appear to be so lax, because they leave it to the local towns to control that stuff - and the state, just last year, required every county to pass an exotic/dangerous animal law-set. So every county may be different as well.

Endangered Species:
Native canebrake rattlesnakes may not be possessed at any time. Specimins from outside the state maybe kept, provided you have paperwork that proves it did not originate in Texas.

Regulations in the city of Austin:
Venomous species may not be kept in city limits of the city of Austin unless you hold a state rehabilitation permit or education permit. Travis county (the county of Austin) chose to not regulate any reptile species.
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[najaboy]

MI: No license or permit requirements at the state level.
The only venomous reptile that's regulated by the state is the Eastern massasauga rattlesnake.
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[morti]

At this moment, there are no state regulations regarding the keeping any venomous species in Kentucky. There are some places such as Covington and Lexington that do have local ordinances.

If the proposed state legislation passes, keeping hots will not be illegal, but bringing new ones into the state will require a transportation permit. Both driving animals into the state or receiving shipments count.

They are also considering tighter legislation about native species. With the exception of my non-kentucky corn snakes and my California king, I should be ok there. I don't know if they are going to regulate my non-native natives or not. That should be interesting.

I'll keep you posted if the hot laws change.
-Morti
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	Corn Snake The Corn Snake or Red Rat Snake (Elaphe guttata) is a species of Rat Snake.

[BadKarma]

Here you go BW. MO
No person may keep any deadly, dangerous, or poisonous reptle or any deadly or dangerous reptile over 8 feetlong in any place other than a properly maintained zoological park, circus, scientific or educational institution, reserch laboratory, veterinary hospital or animal refuse unless such person has registered such animal with the law enforcement agency in the county in which the animal is kept. Any person violating the provisions shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
A maximum of 5 specimems of any native wildlife except endangered species, where I livebenders bats,and alligator snapping turtles may be taken live by a resident of Missouri without permit but these animals shall not be bought or sold. Bones skins shell and other parts fo such widlife may be possesed for personal use without permit, but these parts in any form shall not be bought or sold.


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[Drax]

as for the SC laws a permit/lisence is not needed to keep hots. although i heard a rumor that you are not allowed to keep venemous in Greenville county (where i live). i have yet to follow this rumor up b/c i don't plan on keeping hots until i move out on my own.
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	Venomous Reptile A term commonly used to refer to a venomous reptile. Most commonly used in reference to venomous snakes.

[trinitywolf]

Hey Donnie,
You are correct about Kentucky; but like Texas they leave that up to the local goverments (as you stated) and Jefferson county (now Metro Louisville) DOES prohibit the keeping of venomous or poisonouns reptiles, amphibians, or insects. Jefferson County Ordinance
91.008 KEEPING OF WILDLIFE
<TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Quote:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><BLOCKQUOTE>(A) No person may possess:
(2) Any venomous or poisonous reptile, amphibian or insect. </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR></TD></TR></TABLE>
There is a grandfather law and registration proceedure for animals owned before March 10th, 1988, which I can only assume is when the original ordinance passed. Included in this is a laundry list of requirements that would make the ownership of venomous or poisonous animals quite a chore to say the least! They include:
1)Obtain a permit from the State Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
2)Obtain a permit from the Jefferson County division of Animal Control for EACH animal
3)Include in the application for permit a health certificate from a vet stating the animal is free of infectious disease or is under treatment
4)Inspection of the facility where the animal is to be kept buy the Division of Animal Control and Protection. Each enclosure must provide adaquate exercise and sleeping room. Proper tempreture control and ventilation for the particular species. Each enclosoure must be kept locked and designed so that no one can enter or place appendages in the enclosure. Must be contructed to prevent escape, have a water container that is secured to prevent overturning, must be disinfected daily, made of an impervious material
5)must be provided with continuous clean water and must be fed a mimimum of TWICE per day a diet approved by a vet
6)Any animal that bites or scratches someone must be immediatly surrendered to the Div. of Animal Control for euthanisia and testing (like they didn't know it was dangerous???)
It goes on..but I think that more than illustrates how great the legislation in our county is.

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