As used in this chapter:
- (1) "Abandoned apiary" means any apiary to which the owner or operator fails to give reasonable and adequate attention during a given year as determined by the department.
- (2) "Apiary" means any place where one or more colonies of bees are located.
- (3) "Apiary equipment" means hives, supers, frames, veils, gloves, or other equipment used to handle or manipulate bees, honey, wax, or hives.
- (4) "Appliance" means any apparatus, tool, machine, or other device used to handle or manipulate bees, wax, honey, or hives.
- (5) "Bee" means the common honey bee, Apis mellifera, at any stage of development.
(6)
- (a) "Beekeeper" means a person who keeps bees.
- (b) "Beekeeper" includes an apiarist.
- (7) "Colony" means an aggregation of bees in any type of hive that includes queens, workers, drones, or brood.
- (8) "Disease" means any infectious or contagious disease affecting bees, as specified by the department, including American foulbrood.
- (9) "Hive" means a frame hive, box hive, box, barrel, log, gum skep, or other artificial or natural receptacle that may be used to house bees.
- (10) "Package" means any number of bees in a bee-tight container, with or without a queen, and without comb.
- (11) "Parasite" means an organism that parasitizes any developmental stage of a bee.
(12) "Pest" means an organism that:
- (a) inflicts damage to a bee or bee colony directly or indirectly; or
- (b) may damage apiary equipment in a manner that is likely to have an adverse effect on the health of the colony or an adjacent colony.
(13) "Raise" means:
- (a) to hold a colony of bees in a hive for the purpose of pollination, honey production, or study, or a similar purpose; and
- (b) when the person holding a colony holds the colony or a package of bees in the state for a period of time exceeding 30 days.
- (14) "Terminal disease" means a pest, parasite, or pathogen that will kill an occupant colony or subsequent colony on the same equipment.
Amended by Chapter 136, 2019 General Session