2016 Delaware Code
Title 3 - Agriculture
CHAPTER 75. BEE KEEPING
§ 7501. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Apiary" means any place where one or more colonies of honeybees are kept.

(2) "Appliances" means any apparatus, tools, machine, or other device used in the handling of bees, honey, wax and hives, and includes smokers, veils, gloves, hive tools, extractors, as well as any container of bees, honey or wax which may be used in an apiary or in transporting bees and their products.

(3) "Bees" means any stage of development of the common honeybee, Apis Mellifera, or of any other bee species being transported into Delaware for any purpose.

(4) "Bee diseases" means American or European foul brood or any other infectious or contagious disease pronounced detrimental to beekeeping by the Department of Agriculture or the State Apiarist.

(5) "Bee equipment" means hives, supers, frames, sections, wax foundation, wax, comb and honey.

(6) "Colony" means the hive and its bees, comb and equipment.

(7) "Hive" means frame hive, box hive, barrel, log gum, skep or any other container, or any part thereof, which may be used as a domicile for bees.

(8) "Queen apiary" means any apiary in which queen bees are reared or kept for gift or sale.

(9) "Africanized bee" means Apis mellifera Scutellata or Apis mellifera Adansoni or other exotic species.

(10) "Mite" means Acarapis woodi, Varroa jacobsoni.

(11) "Inspector" means any qualified person who is appointed by the Department for the purpose of inspecting honeybee colonies.

46 Del. Laws, c. 111, § 1; 3 Del. C. 1953, § 7501; 57 Del. Laws, c. 764, § 26; 65 Del. Laws, c. 366, § 1; 77 Del. Laws, c. 360, § 1.;