Quote Originally Posted by joepythons View Post
Did you even read it ? Its an attempt to CEASE reptile shows not the eating of animals .They are wanting ONLY pet stores to be able to sell animals period.So yes its worth my time to alert EVERYONE about it
I read it Joe, and I've known about it for a while. I'm so gratified to see everyone is suddenly up in arms about a bill that has been floating around for over two months...........

Where are they wanting only Pet Stores to sell animals? Where does it ban reptile shows? Where does it not allow a small time breeder to sell reptiles out of his house?

SECTION 1. Section 597.4 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
597.4. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully sell,
display , or offer for sale or give away as part
of a commercial transaction , a live animal on any street,
highway, public right-of-way, commercial parking lot, or at any
outdoor special sale, swap meet, flea market, parking lot sale,
carnival, or boardwalk.

I have no problem refraining from selling live animals on:

a street
a highway
in the public ROW
in a commercial parking lot
at an OUTDOOR special sale
at a swap meet
or a flea market
even a parking lot sale and being afraid of clowns,
a carnival is automatically out
and I haven't bought an animal at a boardwalk in ages.

Joe, I've looked at the full text of the bill, in it's original and amended forms and can find no reference to the bill making it a crime to sell reptiles only through pet stores.

Now, if some of this bill was written in secret invisible ink, or if this is part of some secret conspiracy to gradually strip all of a our constitutional rights away from us by back-dooring it through the reptile industry (you know, first they came for our reptiles and then our first born sons), then please point me to correct verbiage in the bill.

Thanks in advance.