Kenner, LA Animal Ordinances: Exotic Pets (2026)
Key Facts
- Class I animals
- Keeping prohibited entirely
- Class II permit fee
- $100.00
- Pet shop Class II permit
- $50.00
- Snakes
- Poisonous/constrictor barred outside licensed zoo
Summary
The City of Kenner bans keeping Class I wild or exotic land animals outright and requires a $100 permit for Class II animals, with poisonous or constrictor snakes barred entirely outside a licensed zoo and pet shops charged $50 for a Class II possession permit.
Sec. 4-9. - Keeping of exotic animals. (a)No person can keep any wild or exotic species of land animals that fall under class I designated by the city department of code enforcement's "Rules for Wild or Exotic Animals". A person may keep a wild or exotic species of land animal that falls under class II designated by the city department of code enforcement's "Rules for Wild or Exotic Animals" only after obtaining a permit which costs one hundred dollars ($100.00). Application procedures and requirements for such permit shall be in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the department of code enforcement. Under no circumstances can any person keep a poisonous or constrictor snake other than in a licensed zoo. A pet shop must obtain a permit for the possession of class II animals in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the department of code enforcement. The cost of that license is fifty dollars ($50.00). ... (d)Subsection (a) does not apply to zoological parks, performing animal exhibitions or circuses.
Full Breakdown
City Code Sec. 4-9(a) prohibits keeping any wild or exotic species of land animal that the department of code enforcement's 'Rules for Wild or Exotic Animals' classifies as Class I. A Class II animal under those same rules may be kept only after obtaining a $100.00 permit, with application procedures set by department of code enforcement regulations. No person may keep a poisonous or constrictor snake anywhere in the city except in a licensed zoo, regardless of classification. A pet shop possessing Class II animals must separately obtain its own permit, costing $50.00, under the same department rules.
Subsection (b) lets the department issue a temporary permit for a homeless wild animal native to the area until it can be released or a permanent exotic-animal permit issued, and subsection (c) requires anyone finding an injured or infant native wild animal to call the department of code enforcement for pickup rather than keep it, except as state law allows. Subsection (d) exempts zoological parks, performing-animal exhibitions, and circuses from the Class I keeping ban entirely, recognizing licensed exhibition operations differently from private ownership.
Violations & Fines
Keeping a Class I wild or exotic animal, keeping a Class II animal without the $100 permit, or keeping a poisonous or constrictor snake outside a licensed zoo violates Sec. 4-9 and, absent a listed fine in that section, is punished under the Sec. 1-9 general penalty of up to $500 and up to 60 days imprisonment, with the animal subject to seizure by the department of code enforcement.
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