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Where is the blue-tongue skink legal?

Tiliqua scincoides. Restricted in 1 of the 9 jurisdictions checked. Every entry quotes the rule it comes from.

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Alabama: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkAlaska: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkArizona: no restriction found for blue-tongue skinkArkansas: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkCalifornia: no restriction found for blue-tongue skinkColorado: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkConnecticut: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkDelaware: no restriction found for blue-tongue skinkFlorida: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkGeorgia: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkHawaii: banned for blue-tongue skinkIdaho: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkIllinois: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkIndiana: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkIowa: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkKansas: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkKentucky: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkLouisiana: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkMaine: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkMaryland: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkMassachusetts: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkMichigan: no restriction found for blue-tongue skinkMinnesota: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkMississippi: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkMissouri: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkMontana: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkNebraska: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkNevada: no restriction found for blue-tongue skinkNew Hampshire: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkNew Jersey: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkNew Mexico: no restriction found for blue-tongue skinkNew York: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkNorth Carolina: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkNorth Dakota: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkOhio: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkOklahoma: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkOregon: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkPennsylvania: no restriction found for blue-tongue skinkRhode Island: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkSouth Carolina: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkSouth Dakota: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkTennessee: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkTexas: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkUtah: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkVermont: no restriction found for blue-tongue skinkVirginia: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkWashington: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkWest Virginia: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkWisconsin: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkWyoming: not checked yet for blue-tongue skinkDistrict of Columbia: not checked yet for blue-tongue skink

Select a state for the rule behind its colour. Alaska, Hawaii and the District of Columbia are drawn out of position so they can be clicked. 9 of the 51 jurisdictions we cover, the 50 states plus DC, have been read for this animal, so the 42 dotted ones are a gap in our research rather than a finding of no rule.

What the colours mean

  • Banned (1)No legal way to keep one, and no permit to apply for.
  • Permit requiredLegal, but you need a permit or licence before the animal arrives.
  • Conditions applyLegal without a permit only if a stated condition is met, such as a generation, a size or an indoor-only rule.
  • UnclearThe rule genuinely does not resolve for this animal. Ask the agency before relying on it.
  • No restriction found (8)This jurisdiction was read for this animal and nothing in it restricts one.
  • Not checked yet (42)We have not read this jurisdiction for this animal. It is not a clean bill of health, it is a gap.

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Every restriction on the blue-tongue skink

1 of the 9 jurisdictions checked restrict this animal in some way. The rest had no rule we could find. Open a row for the wording of the rule and the citation behind it.

Hawaii

Banned§ 4-71-6.5, Restricted Animal List Part A
Tiliqua scincoides skink, blue-tongued

Part A is headed FOR RESEARCH AND EXHIBITION, so a listed animal has no pet route: a university or a licensed exhibitor can hold one and a private keeper cannot. Named individually. Several other Tiliqua are listed beside it, so the whole pet-trade group is covered rather than just this species.

How this rule works: Part A animals may be brought in by a university or a licensed exhibitor under permit and may not be kept as pets. Part B, published separately as AR-71RB, is the private and commercial use list and was checked as well: it runs to hoofed stock, giraffes, otters, seals, macropods and three named parrots, and contains none of the animals in this dataset.

Hawaii Administrative Rules § 4-71-6.5, List of Restricted Animals, Part A (research and exhibition) →

Past the legal question? See the blue-tongue skink profile.

How to read this

Two of the shades mean very different things and are worth telling apart. A flat grey state was read for this animal and nothing in it restricts one. A dotted state has not been read for this animal at all. Coverage runs from two jurisdictions to fifty-one depending on the species, so on a less-researched animal most of the map is a gap in our work rather than a finding, and it should not be taken as permission.

Even a flat grey is not a guarantee. It means no restriction was found in the specific body of law checked for that state, which is recorded alongside each jurisdiction. Cities and counties regularly ban animals their state allows, and several states say so in their own rules.

Hatched grey means the rule genuinely does not resolve. Usually a definition arguably reaches the animal without naming it, and the honest answer is to ask the agency rather than to guess. Those entries are marked unclear on purpose rather than being rounded to a yes or a no.

Every entry links to the regulation it came from. None of this is legal advice, laws change without much notice, and the agency that issues the permit is always the last word. For the federal layer and how state schemes are structured, see the exotic pet legal hub.