Here is what my city ordinances say regarding owning ball pythons:

"Except as provided by subdivisions (b) and (c), a person may not own a wild animal or a dangerous wild animal inside the city. A person may own a wild animal: (1) Under the same provisions of subdivision (b) {**NOT applicable to ME; mostly educational, zoo, expo stuff**}; or (2) After obtaining a wild animal permit issued by the animal registration agency. The permit must be renewed annually from the issuance date."

"Wild animals shall include all types of animals, which commonly exist in a natural unconfined state and are usually not domesticated. This shall apply regardless of the state or duration of captivity. Such animals shall include, but are not limited to: skunks, raccoons, bats, weasels, squirrels, opossums, lesser pandas, binturongs, wolves, hybrids of wolves and canines, elephants, rhinoceroses, foxes, alligators, crocodiles, monkeys, ostriches, emus, prairie dogs, boas, pythons, anacondas, and all forms of poisonous or constrictive reptiles and other like animals."

So, there's "pythons" and "boas", which are HIGHLY GENERIC terms and, therefore, open for interpretation. In Texas, the animal registration agency is Texas Parks And Wildlife. The only snakes, excluding native game snakes and threatened/endagered species, that TPWD regulates are "All non-indigenous (species not native to Texas) venomous snakes and the following constrictors: African rock python (Python sebae), Asiatic rock python (Python molurus), green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), reticulated python (python reticulates), and southern African python (Python natalensis)." ((Due to recent laws, I'm pretty sure that there are some kind of limit or permits required for Burmese Pythons now, too))

Does this mean the the city code is unenforceable, since no permit to own ball pythons, carpet pythons, red tail boas, etc., exists? Or does this mean that I have to go digging and poking around at City Hall for some kind of weird city permit system? This is NOT the same as licensing like you would a dog, which my city doesn't do anyway. And my county doesn't have any regulations different from the state.

Thoughts?