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Sec. 3-27. - Keeping of potentially dangerous species.

Part of the Code of Ordinances of East Providence, RI.

Local law · 2,200 sections

The text

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or permit to be kept any "potentially dangerous species," defined as any exotic mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians, or non-game species which, in the opinion of the city, is capable of inflicting serious or fatal injury or which has the potential to become an agricultural pest, or a menace to public health, or indigenous wildlife populations, including, but not limited to, the following: CLASS/

ORDER FAMILY

Primates Cebidae—New world monkeys

Cercophithecidae—Old world monkeys

Baboons

Pongidae—Apes

Carnivora Canidae—Nondomestic dogs (or) domestic/nondomestic mixes

Urisdae—Bears

Felidea—Nondomestic cats

Saura

(Venomous) Helodermatidea—Gila monsters

Serpentes (Venomous) Elapidae—Coral snakes and cobras

Viperidae—Vipers

Crotalidae—Pit vipers

Crocodilla Alligatoridae—Alligators and caiman

Crocodylidae—Crocodiles

Gavialidae—Gavials

Psittaciformes

(Quaker) Myiopsitta spp.—Monk parakeets

Rodentia Spermophilus spp.—Ground squirrels

(Ch. 449, § I, 5-6-08)