No person may possess a prohibited animal within the city limits. Such prohibited animals shall include, but are not limited to, all animals prohibited by the state or federal law and shall include, but are not limited to, the following animals or any hybrid of these animals or such other class of animals as may be determined to be dangerous by Animal Control Officer or any other dangerous animal which may be added in the future to the list as a high risk animal in the Texas Rabies Control Act, as amended:
(A) Class Mammalia: family Canidae (such as wolves, coyotes and fox) except domesticated dogs and hybrids involving same; family Mustelidae (such as weasels, martins, fishers, skunks, wolverines, mink and badgers) except ferrets; family Procyonidae (such as raccoons); family Ursidae (such as bears); and order Chiroptera (such as bats).
(B) Poisonous reptiles, cobras and their allies (Elapidae, Hydrophiidae); vipers and their allies (Crotiladae, Viperidae); Boomslang and Kirtland’s tree snakes; mambas, and Gila monsters (Helodermatidae); and crocodiles, alligators and their allies (order Loricata) and nonvenomous reptiles over six feet in length; provided that nonvenomous reptiles, not to exceed 12 feet in length, may be kept for the purposes of wholesale breeding operations only in accordance with this chapter.
(C) Brown recluse (Loxosceles) and black widow (Lactrodectus) spiders.
(Ord. 2008-012, passed 11-18-2008; Ord. 2009-005, passed 2-17-2009; Ord. 2010-004, passed 4-21-2010; Ord. 2012-005, passed 6-19-2012) Penalty, see § 94.99