<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 3-104. - Confinement, control, and registration of wild and exotic animals.</div>
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               (a)
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               It shall be unlawful for any owner or keeper to keep any wild or exotic animal within
               the county, unless it is confined within a secure enclosure as required by the animal
               services director, or is being transported to receive veterinary care, to be sold,
               or to be euthanized.
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               (b)
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               Any wild animal which is not properly secured or restrained as required by this section
               or which has injured or endangered any person or property may be confiscated by the
               animal services director and harbored at the owner's or keeper's expense.
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               (c)
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               For the purpose of this section, animals of a species customarily used in the state
               as ordinary household pets, animals of a species customarily used in the state as
               domestic farm animals, livestock, fish confined in an aquarium other than piranha,
               birds, nonvenomous reptiles, and insects are exempt.
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               (d)
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               All owners of wild animals and exotic pets shall register their animals with the animal
               services director within ten (10) working days of acquisition. Such registration shall
               be for information and enforcement purposes, and there shall be no fee for such registration.
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               (e)
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               A violation of this section is punishable as a misdemeanor.
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               (Ord. Of 9-21-21(2); Ord. No. 2022-02, 3-15-22)
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