UPDATE 10/15/24: This meeting aims to discuss potential changes to the exotic animal ordinance. There is no draft ordinance, and this is just an initial discussion. Anyone with non-domesticated animals should attend, if possible.
The Amelia County Board of Supervisors will discuss exotic animal ordinance changes on Wednesday, October 16, at 7:00 PM in the Amelia County Administration Conference Room. Item 7C on the meeting agenda reads: Exotic Animals Ordinance/Zoning Requirements/Next Steps
If possible, local stakeholders should attend the meeting and contact the Board. We will post more details when they become available.
Currently, under local law (but subject to change by the Board), “wild or exotic animal” means: any live monkey (nonhuman primate), raccoon, skunk, wolf, squirrel, fox, leopard, panther, tiger, lion, lynx or any other similar warm-blooded animal, poisonous snake or tarantula which can normally be found in the wild or any other member of crocodilian, including but not limited to alligators, crocodiles, caimans and gavials. Ferrets, nonpoisonous snakes, rabbits and laboratory rats which have been bred in captivity and which never have known the wild shall be excluded from this definition.
Amelia County Board of Supervisors website: https://www.ameliacova.com/departments/boards_and_commissions/board_of_supervisors.php
LINK to agenda: https://cms2.revize.com/revize/ameliacountyva/Board%20of%20Supervisors/BOS%20Meetings/Packets/UPDATED%20OCT%2016%202024%20PACK_001.pdf
LINK to article reporting, “A second change could be in the zoning ordinance’s provision concerning exotic animals.” https://www.ameliamonitor.com/articles/meals-tax-ordinance-changes-on-supervisors-agenda/
