§ 11-7-131 — Definitions

Wyoming § 11-7-131

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 11: Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals
• Ch. 7: APIARY REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION
• Art. 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

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(a) As used in this chapter:
(i) "Apiary" means a place where one (1) or more
colonies of bees or one (1) or more hives containing honeycombs
or bee combs are kept;
(ii) "Bee diseases" means American or European
foulbrood, sacbrood, bee paralysis or other disease or abnormal
condition of the egg, larval, pupal or adult stages of bees,
including bee parasites and bee pests;
(iii) "Bees" means any stage of the life cycle in the
genus Apis;
(iv) "Colony" means the bees, hive and all equipment
used in connection with the hive;
(v) "Comb" means the brood chamber used by the queen
for the protection of brood;
(vi) "Department" means the department of
agriculture;
(vii) "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 any container of honey and wax which may be used in
an apiary or in transporting bees and their products and apiary
supplies;
(viii) "Family unit" means two (2) or more persons
living together or residing in the same dwelling, house or other
place of residence;
(ix) "General apiary" means any apiary other than a
pollination apiary, landowner apiary or hobbyist apiary;
(x) "Hive" means a frame hive, box hive, box, barrel,
log gun, skep or other receptacle or container or a part of a
container, natural or artificial, which may be used as a
domicile for bees;
(xi) "Hobbyist apiary" means an apiary owned by a
hobbyist beekeeper;
(xii) "Hobbyist beekeeper" means a person who owns a
total of not more than five (5) hives;
(xiii) "Landowner" means the person who has the
actual use and exclusive possession of the land upon which a
landowner apiary is to be registered, except that a person
leasing or renting land for the primary purpose of locating or
establishing an apiary thereon is not considered a landowner;
(xiv) "Landowner apiary" means an apiary owned by a
landowner as defined in this section;
(xv) "Person" means any individual, association,
partnership or corporation;
(xvi) "Pollination apiary" means an apiary operated
for pollination of commercial seed, fruit or other commercial
agricultural product as provided in W.S. 11-7-203;
(xvii) "Queen apiary" means an apiary or premises in
which queen bees are reared or kept for sale or gift;
(xviii) "Bee parasites" means mites, including but
not limited to varroa mites and tracheal mites;
(xix) "Bee pests" means insects, including but not
limited to small hive beetles and red imported fire ants;
(xx) "General beekeeper" means a person who owns more
than five (5) hives and manages and operates the bees and the
hives;
(xxi) "Global positioning system or GPS" means a
device that provides accuracy in positioning using latitude and
longitude coordinates;
(xxii) "Holding yard" means an area where colonies
are temporarily placed prior to leaving the state or returning
from pollination in another state;
(xxiii) "Spray yard" means a temporary location where
colonies are moved prior to any pesticide application in the
area of the beekeeper's registered location.