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Hi,

Does anyone know the steps required to obtain a permit to own venomous snakes in New York state? I checked out the DEC website, but couldn't find the appropriate link.

What is the official name of the permit? Can I fill the application out online?

Any kind of info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Peter F.

http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/speclic/venomous_rept_lic.html

Venomous Reptile Interim License

You have to do it all by snail mail. There's no regulation as to who gets it. You fill out the forms, it's yours.

It is interim and if the law changes, it can be revoked. They are trying to pass laws now requiring you to take a course based on animal education. I guess if you are found breaking certain guidelines, like brining huge constrictors (or venomous... the law applies to lots of exotics) to public fairs (for example) in a careless maner, they can then take away that right to own.

If you put down 3-5 venomous snakes on the license, they'll most likely give them all to you. More can be added later. They really don't care who owns.

Dave

One more thing... Check with your local and town ordinances. They can completely ban the ownership of venomous by town within a state. I guess things can be different depending on where you live.

Dave

The Albany Co. ordinance: no venom allowed within the county's borders, this is inclusive of shipping.
creep

Thanks for actually providing evidence that some areas don't allow venomous. Only place I really knew for sure that didn't allow venomous was Toronto. Even though that isn't NYS, I figured somehwere in NY it was a possibility.

Last session, another law was passed in NYS that I don't think many people know about...

If you have ANY exotic animal that can cause damage to another person, you must report it to your local police and fire department. This includes any crocadillian, venomous reptile, large constrictor or monitor (excluding some smaller species).

I'm not too brushed up on this law since it's new and never talked about, but I know something to this effect has been passed. Maybe someone else can help support my claim.

Dave

There's a small hamlet near Syracuse too, our Newsletter editor mentioned to me but I forgot.....

Well and all 5 burroughs of NYC, but we know NOOOOOO one keeps them there.

I was born at Auburn Memorial Hospital... grew up on Seymour Street and graduated from Auburn High School... it's a small world.

Tom
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"Seek first to understand, then to be understood"

just know someone who is and that's how I found out.

I actually grew up near Williamsport, PA (still not that far away).

I also was born at AMH, AND, grew up one block over from you.....the block closer to the prison.
Auburn has it's own ordinance...kinda sucks.

Wow! *really* small world... When I was little (up to age 11) we lived at #16 Owasco Street, and in the summer of love (1969) we moved to 57 Seymour. It's on the corner of Seymour and Nelson Streets, right across from a playground (how convenient!) and about half a block from the City Garage. I moved away in 1978 and haven't spent an appreciable amount of time in New York since. I've gone back for a funeral or two, but that's about all. This summer I "celebrated" my 20th year living in Virginia, longer than I've lived anywhere in my life, and I'd have to say that Virginia is as much my home as any other place in the US...

I have given New York consideration as a permanent home a time or two, but between firearms regulations and now the reptile restrictions, I think I'll stay right here in God's Country... South of the Mason-Dixon

I still have some family in the Throop area, in Moravia and elsewhere, but mostly cousins and second-cousins. Mom and Dad moved here about the same time I moved out west, so there's not much in the way of family for me to go "back home" to in New York. You'd have a hard time finding more beautiful country anywhere in the world than the Finger Lakes Region of New York, but the politicians have the state so messed up it just doesn't seem to be worth the fighting necessary to make the place fit to live in anymore...

Tom Townsend

>>I also was born at AMH, AND, grew up one block over from you.....the block closer to the prison.
>>Auburn has it's own ordinance...kinda sucks.
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"Seek first to understand, then to be understood"

It's a beautiful state, until you meet the crowds. The Adirondacks, The Finger Lakes, Thousand Islands....then you meet the politicians....ugh.

I agree with you, I moved up here in 1994 out of college....it's just not the same as North Central PA. Should this law pass, I very well may be communting an hour from PA.

Matt

It's beautiful as far as scenery goes, especially over the next few weeks. But the politics are ridiculous, and getting worse. It's funny, everyone around central NY makes a big deal about the Indian land claims, the way I look at it, the Indians are about the only thing "American" in the area. I can't say every city/town is bad, but Auburn is ridiculous, unless you're a politician or inmate.

you are supposed to contact the town or city clerks office and they will notify emergency agencies. the funny part is the dec nor ofpc has not yet put this process in place. the clerks were notified and told a reporting process and forms will be sent to them, this has not yet happened. i'm a paramedic and my co covers 911 for most of wny and not one clerk has passed anything to them. i've been to my town clerk numerous times to fill out the paperwork, they keep telling they don't know what to do and come back to see if they have recieved any info or paperwork from the state.

and said "if you have any questions, feel free to call me".