38-18-1. Definition of terms.
Terms used in this chapter mean:
(1)"Apiary," any place where one or more colonies of bees are kept;
(2)"Appliances," any apparatus, tools, machines, or other devices, used in the handling and manipulating of bees, honey, wax, and hives. The term includes containers of honey and wax which may be used in an apiary or in transporting bees and their products and apiary supplies;
(3)"Bees," any stage of the common honeybee, Apis mellifera L;
(4)"Bee equipment," hives, supers, frames, or any parts thereof;
(5)"Colony," the bees in any hive including queens, workers, and drones;
(6)"Hive," any frame hive, box hive, box, barrel, log gum, skep, or any other container, which may be used as a domicile for bees;
(7)"Honey house," any building, or rooms within a building, where honey is handled, extracted, bottled, stored, or processed;
(8)"Location," any quarter-section or smaller portion of land where apiaries may be kept;
(9)"Nucleus," any division or portion of a hive that contains comb;
(10)"Package," an indefinite number of bees, in a bee-tight container, with or without a queen, without comb;
(11)"Permanent permit," a bee location permit issued by the secretary effective for an indefinite period of time;
(12)"Pest," any animal, plant, insect, or infectious, transmissible, or contagious disease or other organism which is or may be dangerous to the apiary industry of the state;
(13)"Pollination," the use of bees for the transfer of pollen in the production of agricultural crops;
(14)"Regulated pest," American foulbrood (Bacilius larvae), honeybee tracheal mite (Acarapis woodi), varroa mite (Varros jacobsoni), Africanized honeybee (apis mellifera scutellata), or any other pest which the secretary considers dangerous to the apiary industry and which warrants control or eradication;
(15)"Temporary permit," a bee location permit issued by the secretary effective for a limited period of time;
(16)"Secretary," the secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the State of South Dakota.
Source: SL 1947, ch 6, §1; SL 1959, ch 2, §1; SDC Supp 1960, §4.1101; SL 1961, ch 3; SL 1976, ch 243, §1; SL 1986, ch 330, §1; SL 1992, ch 280, §1; SL 2021, ch 1 (Ex. Ord. 21-3), § 51, eff. Apr. 19, 2021.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 38 - Agriculture and Horticulture
Section 38-18-1 - Definition of terms.
Section 38-18-3.1 - Minimum distance between apiaries--Beekeepers excepted on own property.
Section 38-18-3.3 - Identification of apiary--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 38-18-3.4 - Abandoned apiary--Destruction, treatment or seizure of bees and equipment.
Section 38-18-5 - Registration fee.
Section 38-18-5.1 - Apiary fund established--Purpose--Appropriations.
Section 38-18-8 - Movable frames required in hives--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 38-18-9 - Sealing of diseased hives required--Violation as misdemeanor--Additional penalty.
Section 38-18-11 - Exposure of infected bees or equipment as misdemeanor--Additional penalty.
Section 38-18-13 - False information or hindering of enforcement as misdemeanor.
Section 38-18-14 - Access of departmental personnel to premises and apiaries.
Section 38-18-16.2 - Failure to comply with order--Strict liability for costs of destruction.
Section 38-18-23 - Certificate of health--Content--Based on actual inspection.
Section 38-18-28 - Promulgation of rules by secretary.
Section 38-18-31 - Promotion of honey and by-products.
Section 38-18-32 - Definitions.
Section 38-18-33 - Honey industry fund.
Section 38-18-34 - Administration of honey industry fund--Donation--Expenditures.
Section 38-18-35 - Promulgation of rules for honey industry fund.
Section 38-18-36 - Annual honey assessment.
Section 38-18-37 - Dissemination of information and instruction concerning honey assessment.