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2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 13 - BEE MANAGEMENT AND HONEY PRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 - Bees
ARTICLE 15 - Enforcement and Penalties
Section 29312.
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CA Food & Agri Code § 29312 (2025)
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29312. In any civil action for the wrongful and willful taking, possessing, harboring, or transporting of a beehive, for the wrongful and willful removal of bees from their beehive, or for the wrongful and willful killing or destroying of bees without the consent of the owner or the person lawfully in possession of those bees, the damage caused to the plaintiff shall be three times the value of the bees at the time of the taking, possessing, harboring, transporting, destroying, or vandalizing of the bees, plus an amount in fair compensation for the time and money properly expended by the plaintiff in recovering or replacing the bees.
(Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 138, Sec. 2. (AB 2755) Effective January 1, 2017.)
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