2009 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 19. AGRICULTURE
ARTICLE 13. INSPECTION AND PROTECTION OF AGRICULTURE.
§19-13-4 Registration of bees; identification of apiaries.

§19-13-4. Registration of bees; identification of apiaries.
(a) All persons keeping bees in this state shall apply for a certificate of registration for bee keeping from the commissioner, within ten days of the date that bees are acquired, by notifying the commissioner, in writing, of the number and location of colonies they own or rent, or which they keep for someone else, whether the bees are located on their own property or someone else's property. All apiary certificates of registration expire on the thirty-first day of December of each year and must be renewed annually.

(b) All persons owning or operating an apiary which is not located on their own property must post the name and address of the owner or operator in a conspicuous place in the apiary.