Quote Originally Posted by Willie76 View Post
Google is your friend. You should be able to find something similar for the city and county where you are moving to. Simply Google, "Chesapeake City Ordinances" or the like and you should be able to find them. Although it may be OK within the state or county, cities have their own codes as well and you'll need to check those too. Make sure you check all 3: State, County, City ordinances.

I don't know Virginia, but a simple Google search came up with this for Fairfax County:



** Federally, Lacy Act does not include Reticulated Pythons so you can transport those across state lines and the rest of your collection looks good as well.
Thank you I have been using Google to find information, however laws about reptiles tend to be very vague. Considering I have larger constrictors that are more often than not having some sort of bill trying to pass on them I wanted to make sure I was utilizing all my source to understand exactly what the laws were. I would prefer to move once and not have to relocate my animals, and right now I have some flexibility as far as the county and city are concerned.

This is the email I received from Virginia Game and Inland Fisheries:

"The state of Virginia does not have any laws regarding venomous snakes. However, many of the localities do. Once you find out where you plan to live you should contact that locality to see what local ordinances they may have. I am attaching a link from our website that contains a new law the USFWS issued on March 23, 2012 regarding dangerous pythons and anaconda species - http://www.dgif.virginia/gov/wildlif...kes/injurious/ in case you haven’t seen it. None of the species you listed are mentioned.



We also have an Exhibitor’s permit that is required if you plan to use your animals in educational programs. The link to the permits application is - http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/forms/PERM/PERM-026.pdf.



Dianne Waller

Permit Section"