That's scary! I live in Florida and have a class II and III permit for my snakes and other animals(needed one for my ring tailed lemur) but had a friend that intends to breed balls and has 10 of them right now. When he sent in his application to get a class III permit he was told that he did not need it for this species? this was Dec about two weeks ago so I think that Emilio is right and it is for larger snakes(just my opinion) but it still sucks as I care for larger snakes as well!