Federal, state & international
Legality Check
Reptile law operates at three levels simultaneously, and the municipal layer is the one that catches people out. This covers the first two properly and flags the third. Confirm locally before you order — we will ask you to attest that you have.
If you did not like the answer
None of the restrictions above arrived by accident. Each one was a bill that passed while most keepers were not watching, and the organisation that reads those bills, testifies against the bad ones and litigates the federal listings is the United States Association of Reptile Keepers.
We send them fifty dollars for every animal we place — the terms are on our acquisition page. That is money. What actually carries weight at a state hearing is the membership count, and that part is yours to contribute.