Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 552 - Bees and Apiaries
NRS 552.230 - Bees to be kept in movable frame hives.


1. It shall be unlawful for any person to have in the person’s possession any bees kept in other than movable frame hives.
2. If any such bees are found by an inspector, the inspector shall serve written notice in person or by registered or certified mail on the owner or owners, caretaker, or person in charge of the same, ordering the owner or owners, caretaker or person in charge to correct the condition within a specified time of not less than 3 days.
3. If the owner or owners, caretaker, or person in charge shall neglect, fail or refuse to correct the condition by providing accessible movable frame hives within the time specified in the written notice, the bees, hives and combs shall be condemned and destroyed by the inspector, without compensation.
[Part 17:225:1921; A 1955, 349]—(NRS A 1969, 95)

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Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 552 - Bees and Apiaries

NRS 552.085 - Definitions.

NRS 552.0851 - "Apiary" defined.

NRS 552.0852 - "Appliance" defined.

NRS 552.0853 - "Bees" defined.

NRS 552.0854 - "Colony" defined.

NRS 552.0855 - "Colony strength" defined.

NRS 552.08555 - "Department" defined.

NRS 552.08575 - "Director" defined.

NRS 552.0858 - "Disease" defined.

NRS 552.086 - "Hive" defined.

NRS 552.0861 - "Inspector" defined.

NRS 552.0862 - "Location" defined.

NRS 552.095 - Control of apiary industry: Authority of Department; adoption of regulations; imposition and use of civil penalty.

NRS 552.160 - Inspection of apiaries; order for destruction or treatment; quarantine; abatement of certain nuisances.

NRS 552.170 - Abatement of nuisance for failure to comply with order for destruction or treatment.

NRS 552.180 - Right of access of inspectors.

NRS 552.190 - Duties of inspectors after inspections.

NRS 552.205 - Colony strength: Establishment of standards; inspectors; certification; fees.

NRS 552.212 - Importation of queens or other bees in screened cages without comb: Certificate of inspection; holding and destruction of bees.

NRS 552.215 - Fees for inspections.

NRS 552.230 - Bees to be kept in movable frame hives.

NRS 552.240 - Concealment of disease or exposure of bees to disease unlawful.

NRS 552.250 - Regulation of neglected or abandoned used hives or appliances.

NRS 552.255 - Public nuisances: Declaration; abatement.

NRS 552.260 - Extraction of honey.

NRS 552.280 - Removal or distribution of diseased bees without permission unlawful.

NRS 552.290 - Chapter supplemental to state law governing quarantines.