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Article: CITIES VARY ON RULES FOR EXOTIC PETS STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS PICK UP WHERE LOCAL GUIDELINES END.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 11, 1998
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Byline: TAD DICKENS, STAFF WRITER
Godzilla escaped in Chesapeake, but in Portsmouth, he wouldn't have been welcome in the first place.
Portsmouth is the only South Hampton Roads city that does not allow ``wild, dangerous or carnivorous animals, or dangerous or poisonous reptiles or snakes,'' according to a city law. That includes elephants, bears and lions.
Norfolk would have allowed the 8-foot-long crocodile monitor lizard that slithered to freedom on Monday, but his owner would have needed to get a permit for him.
The other three cities in South Hampton Roads, however, have no restrictions on owning exotic animals.
That ...