There is a newer version of the South Dakota Codified Laws
2011 South Dakota Code
Title 38 AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
Chapter 18. Apiaries
§38-18-34 Administration of honey industry fund--Donation--Expenditures.
SD Codified L § 38-18-34 (through 2011) What's This?
38-18-3.4. Abandoned apiary--Destruction, treatment or seizure of bees and equipment. The failure to file an application registering an apiary pursuant to § 38-18-3, or the failure to identify a location pursuant to § 38-18-3.3, constitutes abandonment of the apiary. If the abandoned bees and bee equipment are found to be infested with a regulated pest, the secretary shall immediately treat or destroy the apiary. If the apiary is not infested with a regulated pest, the secretary may, upon finding in a contested case proceeding conducted pursuant to chapter 1-26 that there is no justifiable excuse for failure to comply with § 38-18-3 or 38-18-3.3, claim and seize the abandoned bees and bee equipment for use or sale.
Source: SL 1986, ch 330, § 6; SL 1989, ch 344, § 2.
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