Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

The following terms shall be construed respectively
when used in this act to mean:
(1) "Apiary" any place where one or more colonies of bees are kept, or
one or more hives containing honey combs or bee combs are kept.
(2) "Bee diseases" mean a condition of a colony of bees wherein
sufficient numbers of individual bees are afflicted by or infested with
bacterial, fungal, viral, parasitic, or other organisms to the extent that the
well-being of the colony is affected. Specific diseases shall be determined by
regulation.
(3) "Bees" any stage of common honey bee, Apis mellifera L.
(4) "Colony" the hive and bees therein with or without extra supers.
(5) "Comb" includes all materials which are normally deposited into hives
by bees. It does not include extracted honey or royal jelly, trapped pollen
and processed beeswax.
(6) "Commercial beekeeper" a person engaged in the management of honey
bees for their products and for pollination services.
(7) "Director" the director of the Idaho department of agriculture or his
designated agent.
(8) "Equipment" hives, supers, frames, veils, gloves or any apparatus,
tools, machines or other devices used in the handling and manipulation of
bees, wax and hives, and shall also include any containers for honey and wax
which may be used in any apiary or in transporting bees and their products and
apiary supplies.
(9) "Exotic strain of bees" means African or Africanized bees (Apis
mellifera scutellata) or any other developed strain of bees known to be
harmful, but not known to be present ordinarily in this state.
(10) "Hive" frame, hive, box, barrel, log gum, skep, or any other
receptacle or container, natural or artificial, or any part thereof, which may
be used as a domicile for bees.
(11) "Hobbyist beekeeper" a person engaged in the management of honey bees
for pleasure and whose stock does not exceed fifty (50) colonies.
(12) "Persons" individuals, associations, partnerships and corporations.
(13) "Qualified bistate beekeeper" a person who is a bona fide registered
beekeeper and resident of and taxpayer of the state of Idaho, owning a bee
yard or bee yards in both Idaho and another state, whose headquarters are in
the state of Idaho.
(14) "Queen apiary" any apiary or premises in which queen bees are reared
or kept for sale or gift.

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