§ 11-7-207 — Changing locations; enlarging or selling apiaries

(a) No owner of an established registered apiary shall
change the location of the apiary without first receiving from
the department authorization to establish the new apiary. In
making the application, the owner shall specify the location of
the apiary with the same particularity as in the application for
original registration. If the new apiary is not used according
to W.S. 11-7-211, the certificate of registration lapses and all
rights under the registration terminate. Registrations for new
apiaries shall not be issued for greater areas than the
applicant can show are reasonably necessary for his needs
consistent with good beekeeping practice.
(b) A registered apiary may be sold or transferred to a
purchaser subject to applicable provisions of this chapter if
all bees and equipment on the apiary are sold to the purchaser.
(c) No person may increase the number of hives on an
apiary to exceed the number of hives consistent with good
beekeeping practices authorized by his certificate of
registration for that apiary, except that a person may increase
the number of hives on a general apiary beyond the number
authorized by the certificate of registration in order to
protect his bees and hives from bears or other predators. A
person may also enlarge a general apiary during the spring
buildup and in the fall after the end of the honey season in
order to gather his bees for shipment out of the state or to
winter his bees on that apiary.