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8 <br /> 1. ` `.. <br /> 2. <br /> 3. <br /> 4. The Board discussed the possible passage of HB 364, regulating <br /> 5. certain wild animals. Consensus was that this bill did not address <br /> 6. Orange County's problem. <br /> 7. Commissioner Lloyd felt that owners should be permitted to <br /> 8. replace animals. He also was in favor of an interim ordinance <br /> 9. regulating animals until the State acts. <br /> 10. Commissioner Marshall , who favors a ban, disagreed, saying <br /> 11. no interim ordinance which would require expense on the part of <br /> 12. the owners should be adopted. That an ordinance, if adopted , to <br /> 13. regulate should be on a permanent basis. She added that if the <br /> 14. State ordinance is more stringent then we could conform to it. <br /> 15. Ms. Lorie Stephenson, said she was angry; she learned that <br /> 16. Mr. Greene had registered twenty-four animals in the compound <br /> 17. one quarter mile from her home. She said Mr. Greene doesn 't live <br /> 18. there but that she does; she has-no money and can't move. <br /> 19. Mr. Greene said the animals were not all there; that he has <br /> 20. an associate on the road with a circus with two Bengal Tigers and <br /> 21. six leopards. He said the area where the animals are located <br /> 22. belongs to his father and he doesn 't plan to build it up, He <br /> 23. added that he doesn 't want to be told he can't own the animals, <br /> 2i. He feels that regulation is the way to go. <br /> 25. Mr, Mahler, attorney for Lynn Moredock, said of the thirty- <br /> 26. six animals in the County, twenty-four were in one compound. He <br /> 27. suggested that the Board make it prohibitively expensive to own <br /> 28. a number of animals. He said that the State would enforce its <br /> 29. ordinance and that removed the burden from the County. He said <br /> 30. the possibility of a civil suit for damages should an animals escape <br /> 31• and injure someone is sufficient deterrent. He asked that the <br /> 32. Board delay resolution of this matter until the State acts . <br /> 33. Commissioner W-illhoit moved adoption of the ordinance to regulate <br /> 34. utilizing option 3 A. Motion died for lack of a second. <br /> 35. Commissioner Lloyd moved, seconded by Commissioner Walker, to <br /> 36. delay adoption of any animal ordinance pending State passage of an <br /> 37. ordinance and to put such an ordinance into perspective, further to <br /> 38. <br /> 39. <br /> 40. <br />