80-6-101. Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise, in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Apiary" means a place where one or more colonies of bees are kept or one or more hives containing honeycombs or bee combs are kept.
     (2) "Bee diseases" means a disease or abnormal condition of egg, larval, pupal, or adult stages of bees. Specific bee diseases that are subject to regulation under parts 1 through 3 of this chapter must be designated by department rule.
     (3) "Bees" means any stage of the bees in the genus Apis.
     (4) "Colony" means the hive and all equipment used in connection with the hive.
     (5) "Department" means the department of agriculture, provided for in 2-15-3001.
     (6) "Equipment" means hives, supers, frames, veils, gloves, or any apparatus, tools, machines, or other devices used in the handling and manipulation of bees, honey, wax, and hives and includes containers of honey and wax used in an apiary or in transporting bees and their products and apiary supplies.
     (7) "Family unit" means two or more persons living together or residing in the same dwelling, house, or other place of residence.
     (8) "General apiary" means an apiary other than a pollination apiary, landowner apiary, or hobbyist apiary.
     (9) "Hive" means a frame hive, box hive, box, barrel, log gum, skep, or other receptacle or container or a part of a container, natural or artificial, used as a domicile for bees.
     (10) "Hobbyist apiary" means an apiary owned by a hobbyist beekeeper.
     (11) "Hobbyist beekeeper" means a person who owns a total of no more than five hives.
     (12) "Landowner" means the person who has the use and exclusive possession of the land upon which a landowner apiary is to be registered. However, a person leasing or renting land for the primary purpose of locating or establishing an apiary is not considered a landowner.
     (13) "Landowner apiary" means an apiary owned by a landowner as defined in this section.
     (14) "Persons" means individuals, associations, partnerships, or corporations.
     (15) "Pest" means the African honeybee (Apis mellifera scutellata) and those honeybees Africanized by interbreeding with the African honeybee, as identified by rule of the department.
     (16) "Pollination apiary" means an apiary operated for pollination of a commercial seed, fruit, or other commercial agricultural product as provided in 80-6-112.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 79, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 475, L. 1973; Sec. 82-805, R.C.M. 1947; amd. and redes. 3-3101 by Sec. 128, Ch. 218, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 3-3101; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 125, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 198, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 9, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 491, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 72, Ch. 7, L. 2001.