(A) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, it is unlawful in this city for a person to possess, breed, exchange, buy or sell the following exotic or wild animals:
(1) Non-human primates;
(2) Venomous cold blooded reptiles, other cold blooded reptiles and other cold blooded animals that, if in contact with humans, are capable of inflicting fatal injury to the average human;
(3) All poisonous animals;
(4) Constrictor snakes;
(5) Cats (wild family, including but not limited to, bobcat, cheetah, cougar, jaguar, leopard, lion, lynx, mountain lion, panther, puma or tiger);
(6) Non-domesticated carnivores including hybrid crosses of non-domesticated carnivores;
(7) Crocodilia (by example, crocodiles, alligators);
(8) Piranha fish;
(9) Chondrichthyes (sharks);
(10) Struthio (ostriches);
(11) Poisonous spiders;
(12) Venomous or poisonous insects;
(13) Proboscidea (by example, elephants);
(14) Perissodactyla (generally nonruminant ungulate mammals with odd number of toes, by example, rhinoceros);
(15) Artiodactyla (generally hoofed mammals with even number of toes, by example, camel); and
(16) Other wild animals not occurring naturally, either presently or historically, in this state.
(B) A person who owns an exotic or wild animal listed in division (A) above on the effective date of the ordinance from which the provisions of this subchapter derive shall, within 30 days of the effective date of said ordinance, remove the animal from the city.
(Ord. 124, passed 11-7-1995) Penalty, see § 10.99