§ 3.1-610.1. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Definitions
(a) "Abandoned apiary" means an apiary wherein the bees and hives show evidence of a period of neglect which, in the opinion of the State Apiarist, exceeds one year, and for which the owner has not been identified through a reasonable search of available records.
(b) "Apiary" means any place where one or more colonies of bees are kept.
(c) "Appliances" means any apparatus, tools, machines or other devices used in the handling and manipulating of bees, honey, wax and hives or hive parts, and shall include containers used in transporting, processing, storing or merchandising bees and bee products.
(d) "Bees" means any living stage of the honeybee, Apis mellifera and genetic variations thereof; and may also include those hymenopterous insects which depend on pollen and nectar for food.
(e) "Bee diseases" means a departure from a sound state of health of bees characterized by visible symptoms and shall include American foulbrood caused by Bacillus larvae, and any other diseases, insects, mites or other bee pests.
(f) "Bee equipment" means hives and hive parts, including, but not limited to, frames, supers, covers and bottom boards, and beekeeping apparel including gloves and veils.
(g) "Board" means the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
(h) "Box hive" means box, skep, barrel, log gum or other container, natural or artificial, employed as a domicile for bees wherein the brood combs are secured by the bees and cannot be readily removed for inspection.
(i) "Brood" means the assemblage of cells containing any living stage of bees at any time prior to their emergence as adults.
(j) "Candy" means a carbohydrate food for bees of which honey is not an ingredient.
(k) "Certificate" means a state-of-origin document prepared and signed by the State Apiarist or other duly authorized person bearing statements of fact regarding bees, bee equipment or appliances and declaring the articles described therein to be free of American foulbrood or other diseases.
(l) "Colony" means a queenright assemblage of social bees capable of reproducing.
(m) "Combless package" means a shipping container for transporting bees or queens or both, with or without a supply of feed.
(n) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services or his duly authorized assistants.
(o) "Entry permit" means a state-of-destination document prepared by the State Apiarist or other duly authorized person, bearing such statements of fact authorizing the entry into this Commonwealth of bees on combs and appurtenances.
(p) "Hive" means a movable frame hive with foundation used for a domicile for bees.
(q) "Honey house" means a building wherein honey is extracted, processed, packed or stored.
(r) "Interdiction" means the prohibition of movement of bees into the Commonwealth and under certain conditions within the Commonwealth.
(s) "Person" means individual, partnership, association, company, corporation or society.
(t) "Queen apiary" means any apiary or premises in which queen bees are reared.
(Code 1950, §§ 3-483, 3.1-588; 1966, c. 702; 1972, c. 499; 1982, c. 100.)
Sections: 3.1-610.1 3.1-610.2 3.1-610.3 3.1-610.4 3.1-610.5 3.1-610.6 3.1-610.7 3.1-610.8 3.1-610.9 3.1-610.10 3.1-610.11 3.1-610.12 3.1-610.13 3.1-610.14 3.1-610.15 NextLast modified: April 16, 2009