2004 Minnesota Statutes

     19.50 Definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Scope.  For the purposes of sections 
 19.50 to 19.65 the terms defined in this section have the 
 meanings given them.  

    Subd. 2.    Apiary.  "Apiary" means a place where a 
 collection of one or more hives or colonies of bees or the 
 nuclei of bees are kept.  

    Subd. 3.    Abandoned apiary.  "Abandoned apiary" means 
 any apiary not regularly attended in accordance with good 
 beekeeping practices and which constitutes a disease or parasite 
 hazard to the beekeeping industry.  

    Subd. 4.    Bee diseases.  "Bee diseases" means 
 infectious, contagious, or harmful diseases including but not 
 limited to:  American or European foulbrood, sacbrood, 
 chalkbrood, Nosema, bee paralysis, or abnormal condition of egg, 
 larval, pupal, or adult stages of bees.  

    Subd. 5.    Bee equipment.  "Bee equipment" means hives, 
 supers, frames, veils, gloves, and any apparatus, tool, machine, 
 vehicle, or other device used in the handling, moving, or 
 manipulating of bees, honey, wax, or hives, including containers 
 of honey or wax which may be used in an apiary or in 
 transporting bees and their products and apiary supplies.  

    Subd. 6.    Beekeeper.  "Beekeeper" means a person who 
 keeps bees.  

    Subd. 7.    Beekeeping.  "Beekeeping" means the moving, 
 raising, and producing of bees, beeswax, honey, related 
 products, and pollination.  

    Subd. 8.    Bees.  "Bees" means any stage of the common 
 honey bee, Apis mellifera (L).  

    Subd. 9.    Colony.  "Colony" means the aggregate of 
 worker bees, drones, the queen, and developing young bees living 
 together as a family unit in a hive or other dwelling.  

    Subd. 10.    Commissioner.  "Commissioner" means the 
 commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner's authorized 
 agents.  

    Subd. 11.    Department.  "Department" means the 
 Department of Agriculture.  

    Subd. 12.    Exotic parasite.  "Exotic parasite" means 
 any parasite harmful to bees including but not limited to:  
 Varroa jacobsoni, Tropilaelaps clareae, or Acarapis woodi.  

    Subd. 12a.    Africanized honeybees.  "Africanized 
 honeybees" means Africanized honeybees using United States 
 Department of Agriculture standards. 

    Subd. 13.    Hive.  "Hive" means a frame hive, box hive, 
 box, barrel, log gum, skep, or any other receptacle or 
 container, natural or artificial, or any part of one, which is 
 used as domicile for bees.  

    Subd. 14.    Inspection certificate.  "Inspection 
 certificate" means an official record, recorded on a form 
 prescribed by the department, which shows that the apiary has 
 been inspected by the department and which states any diseases 
 found.  

    Subd. 15.    Permit.  "Permit" means a written statement 
 of authorization to allow bees or equipment to enter the state 
 or to move within the state.  

    Subd. 16. Repealed, 1996 c 310 s 1 

    Subd. 17.    Queen apiary.  "Queen apiary" means any 
 apiary or premises in which queen bees are reared or kept for 
 sale or gift.  

    Subd. 18.    Authorized agent.  "Authorized agent" means 
 an individual who is not a state employee and who performs 
 inspections under sections 19.50 to 19.65 under contract with 
 the commissioner.  

    HIST: 1983 c 31 s 1; 1986 c 444; 1993 c 233 s 1