2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 286 - AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY
Act 412 of 1976 - APIARY LAW (286.801 - 286.821)
Section 286.801 - Definitions.

APIARY LAW (EXCERPT)
Act 412 of 1976

286.801 Definitions.

Sec. 1.

As used in this act:

(a) “Bee disease” means American or European foulbrood, sacbrood, bee paralysis, parasites of bees, or other disease or abnormal condition of the egg, larval, pupal, or adult stages of bees.

(b) “Bees” means any life stage of the common honey bee, Apis mellifera L.

(c) “Director” means the director of the department of agriculture.

(d) “Exotic strain of bees” means African or Africanized bees or any other developed strain of bees known to be harmful but not known to be present ordinarily in this state.


History: 1976, Act 412, Imd. Eff. Jan. 9, 1977 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 443, Imd. Eff. Dec. 30, 1982 ;-- Am. 1984, Act 312, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 1984 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 108, Imd. Eff. July 16, 1993

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