California Code
DIVISION 13 - BEE MANAGEMENT AND HONEY PRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 - Bees

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 29000. - 29000. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: A healthy...

Section 29001. - 29001. This chapter shall be known and may be cited...

Section 29002. - 29002. “Apiary” includes bees, comb, hives, appliances, or colonies, wherever...

Section 29003. - 29003. “Appliance” means any implement or other device which is...

Section 29004. - 29004. “Bees” means honey-producing insects of the genus Apis. It...

Section 29005. - 29005. “Board” means the Apiary Board. (Repealed and added by...

Section 29005.5. - 29005.5. “Broker” means a person or entity that receives a...

Section 29006. - 29006. “Colony” means one hive and its contents, including bees,...

Section 29007. - 29007. “Comb” includes all materials which are normally deposited into...

Section 29008. - 29008. “Commissioner” means a county agricultural commissioner. (Repealed and added...

Section 29009. - 29009. “Pest” includes American foulbrood or any other infectious disease,...

Section 29010. - 29010. “Infected,” “infested,” “contaminated,” or “diseased” includes a viable stage...

Section 29011. - 29011. “Hive” means any receptacle or container, or part of...

Section 29012. - 29012. “Inspector” means any person who has received a certificate...

Section 29013. - 29013. “Location” means any premises upon which an apiary is...

ARTICLE 2 - Apiary Board

Section 29020. - 29020. There is in the department the Apiary Board, consisting...

Section 29021. - 29021. Upon the director’s request, the board shall submit to...

Section 29022. - 29022. It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative...

Section 29023. - 29023. In making his or her selection of the membership...

Section 29024. - 29024. The term of office of the members of the...

Section 29025. - 29025. The secretary may appoint a department representative as the...

Section 29026. - 29026. The board shall be advisory to the director on...

Section 29027. - 29027. The board shall meet at the call of the...

Section 29028. - 29028. Each member of the board shall serve without compensation,...

ARTICLE 3 - Apiary Assessments

Section 29030.5. - 29030.5. The beekeeper, apiary owner, apiary operator, or the person...

Section 29031. - 29031. The assessment fees shall be payable to the director...

Section 29032. - 29032. (a) Any funds collected by the director pursuant to...

ARTICLE 4 - Registration and Identification of Apiaries

Section 29040. - 29040. Every person that is the owner, broker, or is...

Section 29041. - 29041. Notwithstanding the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing...

Section 29042. - 29042. Every person who moves bees into the state or...

Section 29043. - 29043. Registration of an apiary shall be filed with the...

Section 29044. - 29044. (a) Each beekeeper, apiary owner, apiary operator, broker, or...

Section 29045. - 29045. It is unlawful for a person to maintain any...

Section 29046. - 29046. (a) No person shall maintain an apiary on premises...

Section 29047. - 29047. Any person who owns or is in possession of...

Section 29048. - 29048. Any pesticide applicator who experiences any loss because of...

Section 29049. - 29049. The owner of any apiary equipment may apply to...

Section 29050. - 29050. Upon receipt of the application and fee, the director...

Section 29051. - 29051. If a serial number brand is used on wooden...

Section 29052. - 29052. Serial number brands are transferrable. (Added by Stats. 1987,...

Section 29053. - 29053. (a) If the purchaser does not have a registered...

Section 29054. - 29054. If ownership of branded equipment is transferred, the original...

Section 29055. - 29055. It is unlawful for any person to have in...

Section 29056. - 29056. It is unlawful for any person to do any...

Section 29057. - 29057. Any funds collected by the secretary pursuant to this...

ARTICLE 5 - Intrastate Movement

Section 29070. - 29070. (a) Any person relocating a colony of bees from...

Section 29070.5. - 29070.5. Any apiary operator or the apiary operator’s designated representative...

Section 29071. - 29071. It is lawful for any person when under the...

Section 29072. - 29072. No person shall move or transport any bees, comb,...

Section 29073. - 29073. The inspector, in a summary manner, may destroy, where...

Section 29074. - 29074. The secretary, by written permit, subject to conditions the...

ARTICLE 6 - Notification Regions

Section 29080. - 29080. As used in this article and in Article 7...

Section 29080.5. - 29080.5. The director may, after notice and hearing, establish regions...

Section 29081. - 29081. Upon the establishment of a notification region, the director...

Section 29082. - 29082. The coordinator may receive money from any source and...

ARTICLE 7 - Use of Pesticides

Section 29100. - 29100. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that bees...

Section 29101. - 29101. (a) Each beekeeper shall report to the commissioner of...

Section 29102. - 29102. (a) The director shall adopt regulations necessary to minimize...

Section 29103. - 29103. Failure of a beekeeper to remove hives from a...

ARTICLE 8 - Quarantine

Section 29110. - 29110. The secretary may adopt by regulation and establish, maintain,...

Section 29111. - 29111. If any quarantine is established pursuant to this article,...

Section 29112. - 29112. If an inspector finds any pest or disease which...

Section 29113. - 29113. If notice that an apiary is being held has...

Section 29114. - 29114. Upon request of the owner of any apiary which...

ARTICLE 9 - Importation

Section 29120. - 29120. Except as otherwise provided in Section 29121, no person...

Section 29121. - 29121. (a) A person may import or transport any of...

Section 29122. - 29122. Except as provided in Section 29123, the certificate required...

Section 29123. - 29123. In lieu of the requirements of Section 29122, the...

Section 29124. - 29124. Any shipment of bees on comb, used hives, or...

Section 29125. - 29125. The certificates required by Section 29120 are valid only...

Section 29126. - 29126. (a) If any bees, comb, hives, or appliances entering...

Section 29127. - 29127. Any American foulbrood disease or other disease found pursuant...

Section 29128. - 29128. After the American foulbrood disease or other disease has...

ARTICLE 10 - Exportation

Section 29140. - 29140. As used in this article, “certificate” means the certification...

Section 29141. - 29141. The board of supervisors of any county may estalish...

Section 29142. - 29142. No fee shall be charged for certification required by...

Section 29143. - 29143. The schedule of fees for the certificates shall be...

Section 29144. - 29144. A commissioner shall make reasonable inspection as may be...

Section 29145. - 29145. It is unlawful for any person to alter, deface,...

ARTICLE 11 - Wax Salvage

Section 29150. - 29150. No person shall remove, salvage, or attempt to salvage,...

Section 29151. - 29151. All wax salvage operations with respect to diseased colonies...

Section 29152. - 29152. The director shall prepare and furnish to interested parties...

Section 29153. - 29153. Any person that desires to maintain and operate a...

Section 29154. - 29154. The director shall make such investigations as the director...

Section 29155. - 29155. A license is good for the calendar year within...

Section 29156. - 29156. Any license which is issued pursuant to this article...

Section 29157. - 29157. To the greatest extent possible, the proceedings for all...

ARTICLE 12 - Sanitation

Section 29170. - 29170. No person shall maintain or operate a diseased colony...

Section 29171. - 29171. No person shall conceal or attempt to conceal the...

Section 29172. - 29172. No person shall sell any diseased bees, comb, hive,...

Section 29173. - 29173. No person shall abandon any diseased apiary. (Added by...

Section 29174. - 29174. No person shall expose to bees any comb or...

Section 29175. - 29175. No person shall extract or render any honey, pollen,...

Section 29176. - 29176. No person shall possess any comb which is not...

Section 29177. - 29177. Any hive or appliance which contains any comb that...

Section 29178. - 29178. No person shall make honey available to bees by...

Section 29179. - 29179. All beekeepers shall provide movable frames in the brood...

Section 29180. - 29180. The inspector shall order the owner, broker, or person...

Section 29181. - 29181. No person shall place, in any combless package of...

ARTICLE 13 - Colony Strength

Section 29190. - 29190. The director may establish a system for certifying colony...

Section 29191. - 29191. The colony strength of a bee colony shall be...

Section 29192. - 29192. The inspection and certification of colony strength of bees...

Section 29193. - 29193. Inspection and certification shall be made at the request...

Section 29194. - 29194. The director may by regulation establish reasonable fees to...

Section 29195. - 29195. The board of supervisors of the county may establish...

ARTICLE 14 - Apiary Inspection

Section 29200. - 29200. The Legislature finds that in order to ensure the...

Section 29201. - 29201. (a) The secretary, or the commissioner, or any inspector...

Section 29202. - 29202. If, in the course of an inspection authorized by...

Section 29203. - 29203. (a) If infestation is found in an apiary, the...

Section 29204. - 29204. Every infested apiary is a public nuisance. The owner,...

Section 29205. - 29205. The notice may be served upon the broker or...

Section 29206. - 29206. If the infestation found in an apiary is American...

Section 29207. - 29207. If American foulbrood is found in an apiary, the...

Section 29208. - 29208. (a) If abatement is by burning or hazardous waste...

Section 29209. - 29209. If the owner, broker, or person in charge or...

Section 29210. - 29210. If an abatement notice as required by this article...

Section 29211. - 29211. In those instances when the inspector has sealed the...

Section 29212. - 29212. The specimen shall be subjected to a laboratory diagnosis...

Section 29213. - 29213. The disease which is named by the director in...

ARTICLE 15 - Enforcement and Penalties

Section 29300. - 29300. The director, and the commissioner of each county under...

Section 29301. - 29301. The director may make any regulations that are reasonable...

Section 29302. - 29302. (a) Unless otherwise stated, it shall be an infraction...

Section 29303. - 29303. It shall be an infraction for any person to...

Section 29304. - 29304. (a) In addition to the penalties outlined in Sections...

Section 29305. - 29305. (a) Any penalties recovered under this chapter, whether criminal...

Section 29306. - 29306. In addition to any other penalty provided for by...

Section 29307. - 29307. Any person who violates any injunctive order issued pursuant...

Section 29308. - 29308. The director shall appoint a supervisor of apiary inspection...

Section 29309. - 29309. Each commissioner is an ex officio state apiary inspector...

Section 29310. - 29310. The director may assign one or more qualified state...

Section 29311. - 29311. The penalties prescribed by this chapter are exclusive and...

Section 29312. - 29312. In any civil action for the wrongful and willful...

Section 29313. - 29313. (a) In lieu of prosecution, and in addition to...

ARTICLE 16 - Africanized Honey Bees

Section 29320. - 29320. The secretary, in consultation with the board, may approve...

Section 29321. - 29321. Any hive or comparable apparatus that is not occupied...

Section 29322. - 29322. (a) The governing board of a city, county, or...