§ 2-22-101 - Definitions. - Arkansas Statutes

2-22-101. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Abandoned apiary" means an apiary to which the owner or operator fails to provide such reasonable and adequate attention to each hive during the year as to jeopardize the welfare of neighboring colonies;

(2) "Apiary" means any place where one (1) or more colonies of bees are kept;

(3) "Appliances" means any apparatus, tools, machines, or other devices used in the handling and manipulation of bees, honey, wax, and hives. The term includes containers of honey and wax which may be used in an apiary or in transporting bees and their products and apiary supplies;

(4) "Bees" means any stage of the common honeybee, Apis mellifera;

(5) "Bee disease" means American and European foulbrood, sacbrood, bee paralysis, or any other disease or abnormal condition of the egg, larval, pupal, or adult stages of bees;

(6) "Apiary equipment" means hives, supers, frames, veils, gloves, or any other equipment used in the handling and manipulation of bees, honey, wax, and hives;

(7) "Colony" means the bees in any hive including queens, workers, and drones;

(8) "Hive" means a frame hive, box hive, box, barrel, logs, gum skep, or any other receptacle or container, natural or artificial, or any part thereof, which may be used as a domicile for bees;

(9) "Nucleus" means any division or portion of a hive that contains comb;

(10) "Package" means an indefinite number of bees, in a bee-tight container, with or without a queen, without comb;

(11) "Pollination" means the use of bees for the transfer of pollen in the production of agricultural crops;

(12) "Director" means the Director of the Arkansas State Plant Board;

(13) "State Apiarist" means the Director of the Division of Plant Industries of the State Plant Board;

(14) "Section head" means the head of the Apiary Section of the Division of Plant Industries.