Oregon — localities may prohibit wild/exotic animals (ORS 609.205, local-option)
Source: Oregon State Legislature — ORS Chapter 609 (Animal Control; Exotic Animals), § 609.205 (oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors609.html), extracted 2026-07-23. First-hand state-statute text; C1 substring-verified against pdf-raw/exotic-legality/or_ors_609.txt.
Oregon uses a local-option model rather than a blanket state ban. ORS 609.205 is titled "Prohibitions against keeping of wild or exotic animals." The statute provides: "a city or county may prohibit by ordinance the keeping of wildlife, as defined in ORS 496.004, and may prohibit by ordinance the keeping of exotic animals as defined in ORS 609.305." So the STATE enables — but does not itself impose — local prohibitions; the actual ban depends on the city/county ordinance.
Oregon also defines the term centrally. Under ORS 609.305: "As used in ORS 609.305 to 609.355 and 609.992, exotic animal means: Any member of the family Felidae not indigenous to Oregon, except the species Felis catus (domestic cat);" (other classes follow: nonhuman primates, nonwolf Canidae not indigenous to Oregon, etc.).
This covers the Oregon "are exotic pets banned, and by whom?" question: the answer is delegated to local ordinances, with the state supplying the definitions. Model contrasts with NY (blanket state ban), FL/CA (state schedules), and MA/HI (state lists). CITES Appendix status is a separate federal/trade layer and is not addressed here.
Verbatim C1 claims (each a substring of the source file + this body):
- "Prohibitions against keeping of wild or exotic animals."
- "a city or county may prohibit by ordinance the keeping of wildlife, as defined in ORS 496.004, and may prohibit by ordinance the keeping of exotic animals as defined in ORS 609.305."
- "As used in ORS 609.305 to 609.355 and 609.992, exotic animal means:"
- "Any member of the family Felidae not indigenous to Oregon, except the species Felis catus (domestic cat);"