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2015 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 38 - AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
Chapter 18 - Apiaries
- § 38-18-1 Definition of terms.
- § 38-18-2 Repealed.
- § 38-18-3 Annual application for registration of apiaries--Contents--Revocation of landowner or lessee's placement authorization--Approval or rejection of registration--Hearings--Violation as misdemeanor--Civil penalty.
- § 38-18-3.1 Minimum distance between apiaries--Beekeepers excepted on own property.
- § 38-18-3.2 Repealed.
- § 38-18-3.3 Identification of apiary--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 38-18-3.4 Abandoned apiary--Destruction, treatment or seizure of bees and equipment.
- § 38-18-4 Application for entrance permit--Action by secretary--Failure to apply for permit as misdemeanor--Civil penalty.
- § 38-18-5 Registration fee.
- § 38-18-5.1 Apiary fund established--Purpose--Appropriations.
- § 38-18-6 Repealed.
- § 38-18-7 Repealed.
- § 38-18-8 Movable frames required in hives--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 38-18-9 Sealing of diseased hives required--Violation as misdemeanor--Additional penalty.
- § 38-18-10 Infested colony or apiary as public nuisance--Treatment or destruction of infested apiaries--Violation as misdemeanor--Additional penalty.
- § 38-18-11 Exposure of infected bees or equipment as misdemeanor--Additional penalty.
- § 38-18-12 Inspection programs--Employment of personnel--Investigation and control of diseases--Movement of bees in and out of state.
- § 38-18-13 False information or hindering of enforcement as misdemeanor.
- § 38-18-14 Access of departmental personnel to premises and apiaries.
- § 38-18-15 Certificate of inspection--Issuance and contents--Certificate of health--Duration--Revocation.
- § 38-18-16 Written order by secretary to treat or destroy apiary, regulated pests or exotic bees--Action by secretary if order not obeyed--Secretary authorized to sell salvageable equipment and bees.
- § 38-18-16.1 Hearing--Staying of effective date of order--Exception--Affirmation, amendment or revocation of order.
- § 38-18-16.2 Failure to comply with order--Strict liability for costs of destruction.
- § 38-18-17 Repealed.
- § 38-18-18 Repealed.
- § 38-18-19 Quarantine of bees, equipment, and premises--Unauthorized removal or handling as misdemeanor--Continuation until determination by secretary.
- § 38-18-20 Written order to place honey house in sanitary condition--Failure to obey as misdemeanor.
- § 38-18-21 Certificate of health or compliance agreement required for bees and used bee equipment imported from another state--Importation without certificate or compliance agreement as misdemeanor.
- § 38-18-22 Repealed.
- § 38-18-23 Certificate of health--Content--Based on actual inspection.
- § 38-18-24 Repealed.
- § 38-18-25 Unlawfully imported bees subject to seizure--Destruction or treatment if found to be infested--Notice of intent to seize--Owner to comply with provisions of this chapter or remove bees from state--Assessments of costs.
- § 38-18-26 Certificate of inspection required to transfer ownership of bees or used bee equipment--Copy to recipient of bees--Violation as misdemeanor.
- § 38-18-27 Request to enter compliance agreement or for additional inspections by departmental personnel--Fees and expenses.
- § 38-18-28 Promulgation of rules by secretary.
- § 38-18-28.1 Restriction on movement of bees and related articles from quarantined area--Promulgation of rules.
- § 38-18-29 Repealed.
- § 38-18-30 Repealed.
- § 38-18-31 Promotion of honey and by-products.
- § 38-18-32 Definitions.
- § 38-18-33 Honey industry fund.
- § 38-18-34 Administration of honey industry fund--Donation--Expenditures.
- § 38-18-35 Promulgation of rules for honey industry fund.
- § 38-18-36 Annual honey assessment.
- § 38-18-37 Dissemination of information and instruction concerning honey assessment.
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