This site will be continually under construction and changing as the states, counties and municipals continually change their regulations and laws. These are the current regulations for 1996 that we have received to date. The State Game and Inland Fisheries regulates pet primates. They estimate about five times as many owners of pet primates as primate owners with USDA licenses.
Some primates are in one category, some in the other.
Thus, many pet primate owners also obtain a USDA license by becoming pseudo-exhibitors. These owners must renew their special permit yearly, so officials can monitor and ensure that no new primates are acquired when these animals die.