"Georgia Code Title 27 -- Game and Fish, Chapter 5 -- Wild Animals, §27-5-4 -- Wild Animals for which license or permit required," lists animals that can only be kept with special permits, like those issued to zoological gardens. Snakes requiring a special permit or license include Family Elipidae, which includes cobras and coral snakes; Family Viperidae, which includes adders and vipers; Family Colubridae, which includes snakes with poisonous rear-fangs; and Family Crotalida, which includes pit vipers like the native rattlesnake, cottonmouth and copperhead. Anacondas are of Family Boidae, constrictors, and therefore do not require a permit or license to own.
Though anacondas are not legally prohibited in Georgia, there are a few things a prospective owner needs to consider in addition to the enormous size these animals can attain. They are water-snakes, and their natural habitats are rivers. They are excellent climbers and can pass into any space with an opening a few inches wide. An anaconda can kill and eat an animal the size of a small deer. So while they are legal, if you have children or mammalian pets in the house, this may not be the pet you want. Additionally, anacondas can live up to 30 years. That's a commitment that outlasts most marriages in the United States, and should be seriously considered when purchasing this type of "companion" animal.
Georgia doesn't prohibit the ownership of anacondas; but Georgia -- like every other state -- does have an amplitude of lawyers who prosecute civil suits. If your pet serpent leaves the house, it may simply find the nearest stream in which to survive, and die quietly when winter comes if you live outside the tropics or sub-tropics. On the other hand, if your anaconda leaves the house hungry, it may chance upon a tasty cocker spaniel or delicious Bombay cat. It might even decide to go back indoors, and not necessarily yours.
If your escaped anaconda coils itself around a child, or the sight of your anaconda crossing the yard of your 88-year-old neighbor causes her to drop dead with a heart attack, you could be facing a homicide charge. Georgia law has two categories of homicide: murder and manslaughter. Georgia law has two categories of manslaughter, or unintentional homicide: voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. According to Georgia law, if someone dies as a result of your reckless conduct -- whether or not that reckless conduct is itself criminal -- then you can face up to ten years in prison.