Montebello requires a permit from the animal-control director before keeping any wild, exotic, dangerous, or nondomestic animal, and enumerated species like big cats, primates, bears, and poisonous reptiles may not be kept without one.
Montebello Municipal Code Chapter 6.20 requires a permit from the director before any person may keep a wild, exotic, or dangerous animal. MMC 6.08.200 defines a wild animal as any wild, exotic, dangerous or nondomestic mammal, fowl, fish, or reptile. MMC 6.28.050 specifically names elephants, bears, lions, tigers, leopards, wolves, monkeys, apes, chimpanzees, bobcats, pumas, cheetahs, other wild species, and poisonous reptiles as animals that may not be at large outside a fully enclosed premises. The permit application (6.20.050) must describe housing, safety precautions, and the animal's history; permits run one year (6.20.100). State and federal restrictions on prohibited species also apply. The director may impound any wild animal kept without a permit (6.20.110).
Keeping an enumerated wild or exotic animal without a director's permit is an infraction under MMC 6.04.080 (up to $250 per day) and the animal may be impounded until a permit is obtained or removed from the city.
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