Robin, you live in GA too? So do I.. cool..
Anyways ya we have some weird laws here.. last time I checked you CAN own native venomous snakes as long as they arent pit vipers with no permit, but you need a permit to keep native non venomous snakes.. kinda strange. You'd think venomous=permit and nonvenomous=no permit but its the opposite, well really the only native snake to GA that you can own is coral snake as all the other venomous natives are pit vipers. Wow, ok.. this has me confused..