H-3959.3 _______________________________________________
HOUSE BILL 2515
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State of Washington 55th Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By Representatives Chandler, Linville and Sterk
Read first time 01/14/98. Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Ecology.
AN ACT Relating to apiaries; amending RCW 15.60.005; and repealing RCW 15.60.007, 15.60.010, 15.60.015, 15.60.020, 15.60.025, 15.60.030, 15.60.040, 15.60.042, 15.60.043, 15.60.050, 15.60.100, 15.60.110, 15.60.120, 15.60.140, 15.60.150, 15.60.170, 15.60.230, and 15.60.900.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 15.60.005 and 1994 c 178 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter:
(1)
(("Department" means the department of agriculture of the state of
Washington.
(2)
"Director" means the director of the state department of agriculture
or the director's authorized representative.
(3)))
"Apiary" means a site where hives of bees or hives are kept or found.
(((4)
"Abandoned hive" means any hive, with or without bees, that evidences
a lack of being properly managed in that it has not been supered in the spring,
except nucs, or unsupered in the fall, or is otherwise unmanaged and left
without authorization and unattended on the property of another person or on
public land.
(5)
"Apiarist" means any person who owns bees or is a keeper of bees in
Washington.
(6)
"Beekeeping equipment" means any implements or devices used in the
manipulation of bees, their brood, or hives in an apiary.
(7))) (2)
"Bees" means adult insects, eggs, larvae, pupae, or other immature
stages of the species Apis mellifera.
(((8)
"Certificate" or "certificate of inspection" means an
official document certifying compliance with the requirements of this chapter
and accompanying the movement of inspected bees, bee hives, or beekeeping
equipment.
(9))) (3)
"Colony" refers to a natural group of bees having a queen or queens.
(((10)
"Compliance agreement" means a written agreement between the
department and a person engaged in apiculture, or handling, selling, or moving
of hives or beekeeping equipment in which the person agrees to comply with
stipulated requirements.
(11)
"Feral colony" means a colony of bees in a natural cavity or a
manufactured structure not intended for the keeping of bees on movable frames
and comb.
(12)
"Swarm" means a natural group of bees having a queen or queens, which
is the progeny of a parent colony, without a hive, and not a feral colony.
(13)
"Disease" means American foulbrood, European foulbrood, chalkbrood,
nosema, sacbrood, or any other viral, fungal, bacterial or insect-related
disease affecting bees or their brood.
(14)
"Regulated bee pests" means a disease of bees for which maximum
allowable limits of infection, or mites, or other parasites are set in rule.
(15)
"Hive" means a manufactured receptacle or container prepared for the
use of bees, that includes movable frames, combs, and substances deposited into
the hive by bees.
(16))) (4)
"Person" means a natural person, individual, firm, partnership,
company, society, association, corporation or every officer, agent, or employee
of one of these entities.
(((17)
"Bee pests" means a disease, mite, or other parasite that causes
injury to bees.
(18)
"Nets" means a device that is made of fabricated material and that is
designed and utilized to prevent the escape of bees from bee hives during
transit.
(19)
"Apparently free" means no specified bee pest was found during
inspection of survey activities.
(20)
"Substantially free" means levels of specified bee pests found during
inspection or survey activities were within established tolerances.
(21)
"Africanized honey bee" means any bee of the subspecies Apis
mellifera scutellata.
(22)
"Super" means the portion of a hive in which honey is stored by bees.
(23)
"Broker" means a person, engaged in pollinating agricultural crops,
using hives that are owned by another person.
(24)
"Grower" means a person engaged in producing agricultural crops, and
a user of honey bees for pollination of the crops.))
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:
(1) RCW 15.60.007 and 1994 c 178 s 2, 1993 c 89 s 2, & 1988 c 4 s 14;
(2) RCW 15.60.010 and 1994 c 178 s 3, 1993 c 89 s 3, 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 34 s 16, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.010;
(3) RCW 15.60.015 and 1993 c 89 s 4, 1988 c 4 s 2, 1977 ex.s. c 362 s 2, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.015;
(4) RCW 15.60.020 and 1993 c 89 s 5, 1988 c 4 s 3, 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 34 s 17, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.020;
(5) RCW 15.60.025 and 1993 c 89 s 6, 1988 c 4 s 4, & 1977 ex.s. c 362 s 8;
(6) RCW 15.60.030 and 1993 c 89 s 7, 1988 c 4 s 5, 1981 c 296 s 7, 1977 ex.s. c 362 s 3, 1965 c 44 s 1, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.030;
(7) RCW 15.60.040 and 1994 c 178 s 4, 1993 c 89 s 8, 1988 c 4 s 6, 1981 c 296 s 8, 1977 ex.s. c 362 s 4, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.040;
(8) RCW 15.60.042 and 1993 c 89 s 9 & 1988 c 4 s 7;
(9) RCW 15.60.043 and 1994 c 178 s 5, 1993 c 89 s 10, 1988 c 4 s 8, 1981 c 296 s 9, & 1977 ex.s. c 362 s 9;
(10) RCW 15.60.050 and 1994 c 178 s 6, 1993 c 89 s 11, 1988 c 4 s 9, 1977 ex.s. c 362 s 5, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.050;
(11) RCW 15.60.100 and 1993 c 89 s 12, 1988 c 4 s 10, 1981 c 296 s 10, 1977 ex.s. c 362 s 7, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.100;
(12) RCW 15.60.110 and 1993 c 89 s 13, 1988 c 4 s 11, 1977 ex.s. c 362 s 6, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.110;
(13) RCW 15.60.120 and 1993 c 89 s 14, 1988 c 4 s 12, 1981 c 296 s 11, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.120;
(14) RCW 15.60.140 and 1993 c 89 s 15, 1988 c 4 s 13, 1981 c 296 s 12, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.140;
(15) RCW 15.60.150 and 1993 c 89 s 16, 1981 c 296 s 13, & 1961 c 11 s 15.60.150;
(16) RCW 15.60.170 and 1993 c 89 s 17, 1991 c 363 s 15, & 1989 c 354 s 64;
(17) RCW 15.60.230 and 1993 c 89 s 19; and
(18) RCW 15.60.900 and 1977 ex.s. c 362 s 11.
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