Ohio's Dangerous Wild Animal Act (ORC Chapter 935) bans private ownership of big cats, bears, primates, and large constrictors without a state permit. In Canton, Codified Ordinance 505.13 presumes venomous snakes and apes to be dangerous animals.
Since 2012, ORC Chapter 935 prohibits acquiring dangerous wild animals such as lions, tigers, bears, elephants, alligators, and non-human primates, and requires permits for restricted snakes like large pythons and venomous species. The Ohio Department of Agriculture administers permits. Locally, Canton's Codified Ordinance 505.13 goes further, applying an irrebuttable presumption that certain animals are dangerous when kept in the city, including all crotalid, elapid and venomous colubroid snakes and apes such as gibbons, gorillas, orangutans and siamangs. Townships and other Stark cities may adopt similar bans; check your local code.
Keeping a dangerous wild animal without a state permit is a criminal offense under ORC 935.99. Violating Canton 505.13 is a first-degree misdemeanor.
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