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http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A09988&sh=t

NY residents, or those that do business in NY, might want to contact delegates now. Boids that attain an adult length of more than 8 feet will be classified as dangerous and the sale banned.

Katrina

"Pet Dealer" means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other association which engages in the sale of more than nine animals per year for profit {to the public}. Such definition shall include breeders who sell animals; provided that a breeder who sells directly to the consumer fewer than twenty-five animals per year that are born and raised on the {breeders} BREEDER`S residential premises shall not be considered a pet dealer as a result of the sale of such animals

That poses the question..."8 feet one inch is dangerous?"

Aother example of the "Brilliance" of the legislative world.

Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."

8. "DANGEROUS EXOTIC ANIMAL" MEANS ANY MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING FAMI-
26 LIES, INCLUDING HYBRIDS THEREOF, WHICH DUE TO THEIR INHERENT NATURE, MAY
27 BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS TO HUMANS, AND FURTHER DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
28 (A) CLASS MAMMALIA
29 (1) ORDER ARTIODACTYLA (HIPPOPOTAMUSES, GIRAFFES, CAMELS, DEER, BUT
30 NOT CATTLE, SWINE, SHEEP OR GOATS)
31 (2) ORDER CARNIVORA
32 (I) FAMILY FELIDAE (LIONS, TIGERS, COUGARS, LEOPARDS, OCELOTS,
33 SERVALS, BUT NOT DOMESTIC CATS OR FERAL CATS WHICH SHALL MEAN DOMESTI-
34 CATED CATS WHICH WERE FORMERLY OWNED AND HAVE BEEN ABANDONED AND ARE NO
35 LONGER SOCIALIZED, AS WELL AS THE OFFSPRING OF SUCH CATS)
36 (II) FAMILY CANIDAE (WOLVES, COYOTES, FOXES, JACKALS, BUT NOT DOMESTI-
37 CATED DOGS)
38 (III) FAMILY URSIDAE (BEARS)
39 (IV) FAMILY MUSTELIDAE (WEASELS, SKUNKS, MARTIN, MINKS, BUT NOT
40 FERRETS)
41 (V) FAMILY PROCYONIDAE (RACCOONS, COATIS)
42 (VI) FAMILY HYAENIDAE (HYENAS)
43 (VII) FAMILY VIVERRIDAE (CIVETS, GENETS, MONGOOSES, BINTURONGS)
44 (3) ORDER EDENTATIA (ANTEATERS, ARMIDILLOS, SLOTHS)
45 (4) ORDER MARSUPIALIA (OPPOSSUMS, KANGAROOS, WALLABIES)
46 (5) ORDER PERISSODACTYLA (RHINOCEROS, TAPIRS, BUT NOT HORSES, DONKEYS
47 OR MULES)
48 (6) ORDER PRIMATES (LEMURS, MONKEYS, CHIMPANZEES, GORILLAS)
49 (7) ORDER PROBOSCIDAE (ELEPHANTS)
50 (8) ORDER RODENTIA (SQUIRRELS, PRAIRIE DOGS, BEAVERS, PORCUPINES,
51 GAMBIEN RATS, BUT NOT GUINEA PIGS, RATS, MICE, GERBILS OR HAMSTERS)
52 (B) CLASS REPTILIA
53 (1) ORDER SQUAMATA
54 (I) FAMILY VARANIDAE (ONLY WATER MONITORS AND CROCODILE MONITORS)
55 (II) FAMILY IGUANAIDAE (ONLY GREEN IGUANAS AND ROCK IGUANAS)

A. 9988--A 3

1 (III) FAMILY BOIDAE (ALL SPECIES WHOSE ADULT LENGTH CAN EXCEED EIGHT
2 FEET IN LENGTH)
3 (IV)FAMILY COLUBRIDAE (ONLY BOOMSLANGS AND AFRICAN TWIG SNAKES)
4 (V) FAMILY ELAPIDAE
5 (VI) FAMILY NACTRICIDAE (ONLY KEELBACK SNAKES)
6 (VII) FAMILY VIPERIDAE
7 (2) ORDER CROCODILIA.

hmmm... that's funny but i recall several cases were people have been killed or severely wounded by dogs...

hmmm... it must be my mistake that i can't remember the last time someone in my area/state was killed by a boid whose adult legth exceeded eight feet in length.

hmmm... boids in ny must be more dangerous or something... since we all know politicians are infalible.

>:O

sure people have died or become the subject of attack by their animals but every case i've heard across the US has been due to mistakes on the part of the keeper. Never have i heard of a properly maintained boid becoming a danger to the public at large.

yay for the nanny-state

oh well. whatever. glad i don't sell reptiles in ny.

let the flaming begin... or not... whatever.
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hAuNtEr oF fOrUmS

0.0.1 Morelia spilota mcdowelli

"I am not Charlie Brown on acid."-Bart Simpson
"I am not high."-Me

"oh well. whatever. glad i don't sell reptiles in ny."

Do you sell reptiles in ANY state? Bills, once passed, have a way of jumping from one state to another. Better to help in getting one stopped in another state before it is passed than to try to fight it in your own state once it is established elsewhere.

Katrina

You're right. State legislatures do like to plagiarize one another.

Simultaneously convincing their constituents that whatever idea another state had enacted is good for their state and an original idea of whatever politician supports it -> another wonderful aspect american politics
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hAuNtEr oF fOrUmS

0.0.1 Morelia spilota mcdowelli

"I am not Charlie Brown on acid."-Bart Simpson
"I am not high."-Me

Rockin! So I can move to New York and start breeding stiletto snakes! But not skunks and gennets, who have been known to roam the streets in packs feeding on the flesh of the living!
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Eryx - All the fun of a boa in a convenient pocket size!