Grand Island, Nebraska

(definition) Wild Animal.
Any live animal normally found living in a state of nature and not normally subjected to domestication, including but not limited to: monkeys, raccoons, skunks, snakes, and lions, but excluding birds. [1]

5-40. Wild Animals Prohibited
(A) No person shall keep, or permit to be kept on their residential premises any wild animal as a pet, for display, or for exhibition purposes, except as those on an Approved Animal List to be promulgated and adopted by the Animal Advisory Board and approved by the Mayor and City Council. Copies of the Approved Animal List shall be on file with the City Clerk and the humane society, and shall be available for public inspection.

(B) No person or commercial animal establishment shall offer any wild animal for sale unless included on the Approved Animal List.

(C) The owner of any wild animal listed on the Approved Animal List over the age of six (6) months shall pay an annual wild animal license fee as adopted by the humane society board and identified in the City of Grand Island Fee Schedule. The annual wild animal license, as provided in this section, shall be for the period of January 1 through December 31 of the licensing year. The wild animal license provided for by this section shall be secured by each owner or new resident within thirty (30) days of establishing residency in the City or after acquiring said animal, notwithstanding the fact that the wild animal may have been registered within the annual period by a previous owner or that the wild animal may have been registered in another authority other than the City of Grand Island. The wild animal license fee shall become due on January 1 of the licensing year and shall become delinquent on March 1 of each year.

(D) In the event a person wishes to keep or permit to be kept on his residential premises, any wild animal not listed on the Approved Animal List, application in writing may be made to the Animal Advisory Board for adding said species to the Approved Animal List. The primary factor to be considered by the Animal Advisory Board in adding a species to the Approved Animal List shall be whether allowing animals of said species to be kept within the corporate limits of the City of Grand Island presents a risk to public health, safety and welfare or the health, safety and welfare of other species already allowed to be kept as pets. [1]

References:
[1] Grand Island city code

This page last modified: 08-17-2007

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