For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
EXOTIC OR WILD ANIMAL.
An animal that would ordinarily be confined to a zoo, or one that would ordinarily be found in the wilderness of this or any other country, or one that is a species of animal not indigenous to the United States or North America, known at law as ferae naturae, one that otherwise is likely to cause a reasonable person to be fearful of significant destruction of property or of bodily harm, including but not limited to all raccoons, squirrels, ocelots, bobcats, wolves, venomous reptiles, and other such animals.
EXOTIC OR WILD ANIMALS
also include primates weighing over 25 pounds at maturity, and non-venomous reptiles more than ten feet in length.
EXOTIC OR WILD ANIMALS
specifically do not include animals of a species customarily used in this state as ordinary household pets, animals of a species customarily used in this state as domestic farm animals, fish other than piranha confined in an aquarium, birds, or insects, but does include certain members of the canidae, ursidae, and felidae families.
(1996 Code, § 90.11) (Ord. passed 12-19-2005; Ord. passed 6-2-2014)