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DAILY TIMES (Delmarva, Virginia) 17 May 10 Ocean City considers Boardwalk reptile ban
Ocean City: The mayor and City Council are set to tackle a slew of matters at tonight's meeting, considering bills that would prevent anyone from walking leashed lizards on the Boardwalk and would allow beach stand operators to rent cabanas, not just chairs and umbrellas.
An ordinance the council is scheduled to vote on for the first reading would prohibit "nondomesticated animals" from being taken on streets, sidewalks, the Boardwalk or the beach. Prior rules required residents to get a permit in order to keep snakes, alligators or other reptiles as pets but didn't place limits on where in the city they could be taken on walks.
Councilwoman Margaret Pillas, at a town meeting a few weeks ago, said the rules about unusual pets' freedom of movement in Ocean City seemed vague. Council members said they knew of instances where police encountered a man walking a leashed iguana on the boards and stopped him while they tried to figure out if he was breaking any laws.
The proposed law, as written, would ban "snakes, alligators, crocodiles or other reptiles, or any animal not considered a domesticated household pet" from being taken out of the house unless the owner was taking the animal to a veterinarian.
Ocean City considers Boardwalk reptile ban

Ocean City is not in Virginia, it's in Md.

Sometimes I just get so-o-o-o excited when I cut-and-paste these things.
Danke for the correction.
Virginia herpers .... call Maryland!
If one of the Forum-gods could please correct the title attribution (MD Press: ...), I would take it as a personal favour?
grovelling respects
Wes

I live 1/2 hour from OC

>>Sometimes I just get so-o-o-o excited when I cut-and-paste these things.
>>Danke for the correction.
>>Virginia herpers .... call Maryland!
>>If one of the Forum-gods could please correct the title attribution (MD Press: ...), I would take it as a personal favour?
>>grovelling respects
>>Wes

I can edit it, however to be TOTALLY technical, this was out of Virginia! Nice tactic of an article outside the region the proposal is in.
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Ok, Ocean City is in Md, but most of the news is spread between the 3 states that make up the DelMarVa peninsula. I'm 30 mins from OC, 30 mins from Va., and 15 mins from Delaware. It IS confusing, and during the summer, Ocean City becomes the second largest city in Md., second only to Baltimore.

But they just don't want odd pets walking the boardwalk. Dog poop is ok, though

>>Ok, Ocean City is in Md, but most of the news is spread between the 3 states that make up the DelMarVa peninsula. I'm 30 mins from OC, 30 mins from Va., and 15 mins from Delaware. It IS confusing, and during the summer, Ocean City becomes the second largest city in Md., second only to Baltimore.
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>> But they just don't want odd pets walking the boardwalk. Dog poop is ok, though

See ya'all in small states run into this.

I didnt know the distance between these, but that did raise a concern with me that it was a situation in one state where press was coming out in another!

And as a dog owner people who dont clean their poo chap me.
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Cindy, south of Ccean city is Assateague Island, then Chincoteague (yes, like Misty of..) The ponies are wild, and parents let the kids pull the tails of the ponies, laughing at it. Kids (toddlers) have been kicked by those ponies, and then they wonder why. Maybe we should ban the ponies?

They should ban the little products of missed birth control pills instead of the ponies.Even if they weren't pulling the pony tails they prbably deserve a good kick-in-the-face just on general principal.

The parents were totally shocked that the cute ponies would do such a thing. It's even worse in the mating season.

My daughter always cracked up (employee of the park)when the parents had to explain what that "thing" was underneath the boy horses that was moving around.