§ 5-501. Definitions

   (a) In general. -- In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) Abandoned apiary. -- "Abandoned apiary" means an apiary where a beekeeper fails to maintain a colony.

(c) Apiary. -- "Apiary" means a place where one or more bee colonies may be maintained.

(d) Appliance. -- "Appliance" means any device used in handling bees, hives, honey, or wax.

(e) Bee. -- "Bee" means the common honey bee, apis mellifera, at any stage of development.

(f) Bee equipment. -- "Bee equipment" means any part of a hive, including any frame, hive body, or super.

(g) Colony. -- "Colony" means a hive that contains bees, comb, and honey.

(h) Disease. -- "Disease" means an abnormal condition resulting from action by a parasite, predator, or infectious agent.

(i) Hive. -- "Hive" means a container for housing bees.

(j) Honey house. -- "Honey house" means a structure where honey is extracted and processed for sale.

(k) Packaged bee. -- "Packaged bee" means any bee shipped in a combless package.

HISTORY: 1980, ch. 387.