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2021 New York Laws
AGM - Agriculture and Markets
Article 15 - Bee Diseases
173-B - Eradication of Bee Diseases and Certain Insects Affecting Bees.

Universal Citation:
NY Agric & Mkts L § 173-B (2021)
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* § 173-b. Eradication of bee diseases and certain insects affecting bees. The commissioner may cause inspections to be made of apiaries in the state for the discovery of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases and for the discovery of insects and parasitic organisms adversely affecting bees, and for the discovery of species or subspecies of bees which have been determined by him to cause injury, directly or indirectly, to this state's managed bee population, crops, or other plants. The commissioner shall provide a beekeeper or such beekeeper's designated agent with reasonable advance notice of any inspection of an apiary. The commissioner may also cause investigations to be made as to the best method for the eradication of diseases of bees, insects or parasitic organisms adversely affecting bees, or for the eradication of species or subspecies of bees which have been determined by the commissioner to cause injury, directly or indirectly, to this state's managed bee population, crops, or other plants and the commissioner may plan and execute appropriate methods for such eradication.

The commissioner shall have access to all apiaries, structures, appliances, buildings, vehicles, airplanes, vessels or premises where bees or honey or comb used in apiaries may be and may open any hive, colony, package or receptacle of any kind containing or which the commissioner has reason to believe contains any bees, comb, bee products, used beekeeping appliances, or anything else which is capable of transmitting contagious or infectious diseases of bees or which is capable of harboring insects or parasitic organisms adversely affecting bees, or species or subspecies of bees which have been determined by the commissioner to cause injury, directly or indirectly, to this state's managed bee population, crops, or other plants.

* NB Effective December 23, 2021


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