Ohio Revised Code Chapter 909 - Apiaries

• Section 909.01 - Apiary Definitions.
  As used in sections 909.01 to 909.18 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" includes corporations, companies, societies, associations, partnerships, any individual or combination of...
• Section 909.02 - Application For Registration - Certificate.
  Any person owning or possessing bees shall on or before the first day of June of each year, or thereafter within ten days after...
• Section 909.03 - Control, Eradication Or Prevention Of Bee Diseases Or Spread Of Africanized Honey Bees.
  The director of agriculture may make and enforce such rules and orders as in his judgment are necessary to control, eradicate, or prevent the...
• Section 909.04 - Quarantine Orders.
  Under sections 909.01 to 909.18 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture may establish and maintain quarantine orders prohibiting the shipment into or...
• Section 909.05 - Authority To Enter Upon Premises For Inspection.
  To enforce sections 909.01 to 909.18 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture or his authorized representatives, during daylight hours, shall have access...
• Section 909.06 - State Apiarist And Deputies.
  The director of agriculture shall appoint a competent entomologist as state apiarist and such number of deputy state apiarists as are necessary to carry...
• Section 909.07 - Board Of County Commissioners May Appropriate Funds For Inspections - Deputy Apiarist - Report.
  The board of county commissioners may appropriate such funds as it deems sufficient for the inspection of apiaries in its county. It may appoint...
• Section 909.08 - Annual Inspection Of Queen Apiaries - Certificate.
  Each person within the state engaged in the rearing of queen bees for sale or gift, before the first day of April of each...
• Section 909.09 - Permit Necessary To Transfer.
  No person shall sell, offer for sale, give, offer to give, barter, or offer to barter any bees, honeycombs, or used beekeeping equipment without...
• Section 909.10 - Inspection Certificate Required To Ship Or Move Bee Colonies Or Any Used Beekeeping Equipment Into This State.
  (A) No person shall ship or move bee colonies or any used beekeeping equipment into this state from any other state or country without...
• Section 909.11 - Additional Control And Eradication Measures.
  (A) The removal of any bees, honeycombs, honey, or used beekeeping equipment from any apiary in the state wherein a serious bee disease is...
• Section 909.12 - Frames And Honeycombs Must Be Easily Removable And Accessible.
  No person shall keep or maintain bees in any hive if all frames and honeycombs cannot be readily removed therefrom for inspection or keep...
• Section 909.13 - Revocation Of Certificate Or Permit.
  The director of agriculture, in accordance with sections 119.01 to 119.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may revoke any certificate or permit issued under...
• Section 909.131 - Effect Of Child Support Default On Certificate.
  On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50...
• Section 909.14 - Annual Report.
  The director of agriculture may publish an annual report and such other information concerning the inspection of bees, or bee diseases, as he deems...
• Section 909.15 - Moneys Credited To General Revenue Fund.
  All moneys from registration fees and from fines imposed and recovered under sections 909.01 to 909.18 of the Revised Code shall be paid to...
• Section 909.16 - Appeal.
  Any person in interest or affected by any order of the director of agriculture, or state apiarists, may appeal therefrom to the director within...
• Section 909.17 - Director Of Agriculture To Prosecute Violators.
  The director of agriculture or his representatives shall prosecute all violations of sections 909.01 to 909.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, before any court...
• Section 909.18 - Prohibition.
  No person shall violate sections 909.01 to 909.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or any rule or order of the director of agriculture promulgated...
• Section 909.99 - Penalty.
  (A) (1) Whoever violates sections 909.03 and 909.10 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree on a first...

Last modified: October 10, 2016