Question about Python Ban

My question is. I live in Spokane Wa. which is extremely close to Idaho and I keep Burmese Pythons as well as breed them I have a gravid female right now as a matter of fact. When I go to sell the babies I know for a fact that there will be a lot of people from Idaho that are going to be interested in the babies. What is going to happen with those sales? Do I have to check I.D. to see if they are from Washington or what? Any thoughts on this would be great.

Thanks
Tom

If YOU ship across state lines, it will be illegal, plain and simple. Idk about if you sell yo someone with an idaho id though, I think it will just be their fault for transporting it back to their state

I'd like to note that Im not saying you should purposely sell to someone that you know will be trasnsporting it to another state

I'm not 100% sure but I believe they cannot cross state lines. I'm not too sure how they can enforce this so you may still be able to sell em but u may have to drive or get them to come pick them up from you. Im guessing shipping them wont be an option. The newest snake bytes show talks about this. Just go to world of ball pythons and click the media tab and under videos you should be able to find the snake bytes series. Hope this helps, even though I'm from Canada. Lol.

Well in the situation I have there would be no shipping. I am just wondering if there would be any repercussions for me selling to someone knowingly that they are going to cross state lines. I would not be the one crossing the line but I would know about it. I think I will just play it safe and not sell them to anyone that is not from Washington.

Of you sell them within your state you should be fine. If someone you sell to decides to take it across state lines its on them at that point.

There's no question that it's on them. Make it clear up front that you don't want to know where they're bringing the snake. Even if they're from the state, it's not your obligation to figure out where it's headed after the sale. In the extremely unlikely event that they get busted, you can definitely have plausible deniability in court. You wouldn't go to court though because the buyer is the one breaking the law.

I don't think that the ban will be in effect until the end of the year anyway, but I do think that you would get in a lot of trouble if you sold a burmese to someone across state lines. That would be interstate commerce and is subject to federal regulation.

i kinda gotta disagree with everyone... by selling these to an out of state buyer, you might be consitered an acessory to the crime. kinda like the middle man in stolen merchindise,,, you might not be the thief, or the buyer, but your part of the crime.... just my thoughts
spo0oky

Now what would happen if you took your snake outside for some fresh air and the phone rang and you had to run inside to answer it. When you came back out the snake was gone. :confuzd:

This is a touchy one... But even pet stores will be in this same boat if the sell Burms... If they come to you and DON'T say they are from another state, but the sale is in your state, it's technically not on you, it would be on the purchaser, IMO.... But if they tell you they are from out of state and you go through with the sale it would be on you as well as the purchaser...


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