(A) No person shall keep, buy or otherwise acquire from another, any poisonous snake within the city, without first having obtained from the City Clerk a license to keep, purchase or otherwise acquire the poisonous snake.
(B) The license shall not be issued by the City Clerk until the applicant therefor has made satisfactory showing to the City Clerk that he or she has ample and sufficient equipment to safely keep and confine any poisonous snake to be kept or acquired by him or her in the city.
(C) (1) To cover the costs of issuing the license, the necessary investigations preliminary to issuing the license and a part of policing (by seeing that any poisonous snakes so acquired by the licensee are safely kept and confined), the applicant shall pay to the City Clerk, upon issuance of the license, a license fee of $20.
(2) The license, so issued, shall be valid for a term of one year.
(2002 Code, § 90.26) Penalty, see § 90.99