§ 11-7-203 — Pollination apiary registrations

(a) The department may grant pollination apiary
registrations to commercial seed and fruit producers or other
commercial agricultural producers under the following
conditions:
(i) The applicant must own, lease or rent the land
upon which the pollination apiary is to be located and the
applicant must use the land for the purpose of growing a
commercial seed, fruit or other crop which is dependent upon
bees or other insects for pollination;
(ii) The applicant does not own the bees or the hives
which are to be placed upon the pollination apiary;
(iii) The only purpose of the apiary is to pollinate
a commercial agricultural crop;
(iv) The applicant shall provide the department with
all pertinent information necessary to determine if pollination
apiaries are needed to pollinate the applicant's crop
adequately;
(v) The department may refuse to register a
pollination apiary based upon its own investigation of the
matter, but if the department approves the application, it shall
specify the number of hives and location of pollination apiaries
needed for the purpose of pollinating the applicant's commercial
agricultural crop adequately; and
(vi) A copy of the pollination contract between the
seedgrower and beekeeper shall be sent to the department.
(b) A pollination apiary registration is valid only for
the time period the department specifies, and all pollination
apiaries shall be removed within two (2) weeks after the end of
the bloom period of the crop to be pollinated.
(c) No certificate of registration of a pollination apiary
may be leased, assigned or transferred and no person other than
the pollination apiary registrant may exercise in any way any
rights or privileges authorized by the certificate of
registration.