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14 February 2019
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<br />• Monitor lizard (family Varanidae) species or subspecies that may attain a total adult body
<br />length reaching or exceeding four feet, including, but not restricted to, Savanna Monitor
<br />(Varanus exanthematicus), Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus), Water Monitor (Varanus
<br />salvator), and White-Throated Monitor (Varanus albigularis);
<br />• Large constricting snakes, meaning any heavy-bodied snake that feeds by constriction
<br />and which species, subspecies or hybrid may attain a total adult body length reaching or
<br />exceeding 10 feet, including, but not restricted to, Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus),
<br />Yellow Anaconda (Eunectes notaeus), Reticulated Python [Python (=Malayopython)
<br />reticulatus), Burmese (Python bivittatus), Indian Python (Python molurus), African Rock
<br />Python (Python sebae), and Amethystine Python [Morelia (=Simalia) amethistina];
<br />• Felines other than the domestic house cat, and any hybrid of such felines with the
<br />domestic house cat;
<br />• Coyotes and wolves, and any hybrid of coyotes or wolves with the domestic dog;
<br />• Bears;
<br />• Nonhuman primates
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<br />In order to properly administer the provisions of this Ordinance, the Animal Services Advisory
<br />Board may add or remove species, subspecies or hybrids to or from the above list of Wild and
<br />Dangerous Animals. Additions to or deletions from the animals regulated herein may be made
<br />only if the Animal Services Advisory Board and Animal Services Staff recommend to the Board
<br />of County Commissioners, after receiving evidence, that such animal species are domesticated
<br />or not or have undergone domestication to the extent that natural behaviors have changed;
<br />because of habit that would or would not require the exercise of force or skill to keep them
<br />safely in captivity; and would or would not create a reasonable likelihood of hazard to the public.
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<br />Future Items for Possible Consideration by ASAB
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<br />The Task Force aimed to only clarify the language of Sec. 4-181 consistent with the perceived
<br />original intent of the ordinance, and to not change the perceived original list of animals or
<br />procedures for complying with or administering the ordinance. However, updating this language
<br />revealed to the Task Force a number of deficiencies or inconsistencies pertaining to the keeping
<br />of animals that might be deemed dangerous and injurious and detrimental to public health,
<br />safety and welfare in today’s ever-changing world.
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<br />Recognizing that these items were beyond the mandate of the Task Force, and that members of
<br />the Task Force were not always in complete agreement on if and how they should be
<br />addressed, the Task Force lists them below only for the purpose of drawing their attention to the
<br />ASAB for consideration in possible future amendments to the ordinance:
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<br />• The keeping of non-native species and subspecies of scorpions, spiders and other
<br />arachnids that are capable of injecting toxins that may cause severe pain, injury and/or
<br />death to humans, including, but not restricted to, spiders of the genera Missulena,
<br />Phoneutria, Atrax, Hadronyche, Illawarra, Hexophthalma, Sicarius, and Poecilotheria
<br />and scorpions of the genera Androctonus, Buthacus, Buthus, Centruroides, Hottentotta,
<br />Leiurus, Mesobuthus, Parabuthus, Tityus, Hemiscorpius, and Nebo (not addressed in
<br />the existing ordinance);
<br />• The keeping of elephants (not addressed in the existing ordinance);
<br />• The keeping of wild canids (e.g. foxes), and their hybrids, other than coyotes and wolves
<br />(not addressed in the existing ordinance);
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