Pico Rivera prohibits keeping wild or dangerous animals such as lions, tigers, elephants, monkeys, apes, and dangerous or poisonous reptiles, except under a permit or in a scientific or educational institution.
The city's wild or vicious animals provisions bar keeping any animal considered wild or dangerous by nature or ancestry. Prohibited animals expressly include lions, tigers, elephants, all species of monkeys, apes and chimpanzees, and dangerous or poisonous reptiles, except in scientific biological laboratories or educational institutions. No person may keep any listed animal without first obtaining a permit, and permits issue only with conditions ensuring public health, safety and welfare and a finding that the location will not endanger the public. The director of animal care and control (SEAACA) may take possession of any animal kept without a permit or after revocation. Conventional domestic pets are not affected. California also separately restricts many exotic species statewide.
Keeping a prohibited wild or dangerous animal without a permit, or after permit revocation, allows SEAACA to seize the animal. Permit holders must keep the animal confined and restrained so no person entering the premises is endangered.
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