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S 1. 21 k 3• 4• The Board discussed the possible passage of HB 364,. regulating 5* certain wild animals. Consensus was that this bill did not address 6• Orange County's problem. 79 Commissioner Lloyd felt that owners should be permitted to 8• replace animals.- He also was in favor of an .interim ordinance 9• regulating animals until the State acts. 10. Commissioner Marshall , who favors a ban, disagreed, saying 119 no interim ordinance which would 'require expense on the part of 12• the owners should be adopted. 'That an ordinance, if adopted , to 13• regulate should be on a permanent basis. She added that if the 14• State ordinance is more stringent then we could conform to it. 15• Ms. Lorie Stephenson, said she was angry; she learned that 16. Mr. Greene had registered twenty-four animals in the compound i7• one quarter mile from her home. She said Mr. Greene doesn 't live 18* there but that she does; she has-.no money and can 't move. 3.9• Mr. Greene said the animals were not all there; that he has 20e an associate on the road with a circus .with two Bengal Tiers and 21• six leopards. He said the area where the animals are located 229 belongs to his father and he doesn 't plan:: to build it up. He �3• added that he doesn 't want to be told he can't own the animals. 24• He feels that regulation is the way to go. 25• Mr. Mahler, attorney for Lynn Moredock, said of the thirty- 26* six animals in the County, twenty-four were in one compound. He 27* suggested that the Board make it prohibitively expensive to own 28• a number of animals. He said that the State would enforce its 29• ordinance and that removed the burden from the County. He said 30• the possibility of a civil suit for damages should an animals escape 31• and injure someone is sufficient deterrent. He asked that .-the 32• Board delay resolution of this matter until the State acts. 33. Commissioner- W-i l l hoi t- moved a-do-pt-i-on -af the ordinance to regulate 34• utilizing option 3 A. Motion died. for lack of a second. 35. Commissioner Lloyd moved, seconded by Commissioner Walker, to 36• delay adoption of any animal ordinance pending State passage of an 379 ordinance and to put such an ordinance into perspective,. further to 36. 39. 40.