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For the purposes of this chapter, certain terms used herein are defined as follows:

“Apiary” means any place where one (1) or more colonies of bees are located.

“Beekeeper” means a person who owns or has charge of one (1) or more colonies of bees.

“Beekeeping equipment” means anything used in the operation of an apiary, such as hive bodies, supers, frames top and bottom boards, and extractors.

“Colony” means bees in any hive including queens, worker, or drones.

“Hive” means a frame hive, box hive, box, barrel, log, gum skep, or other artificial or natural receptacle which may be used to house bees.

“Honeybee” means the common honeybee, Apis mellifera species, at any stage of development, but not including the African honeybee, Apis mellifera scutellata species, or any hybrid thereof.

“Nucleus hive (nuc hive)” means a small hive containing five (5) or fewer frames used to create/raise new queens and start new bee colonies. (Ord. 2012-16, adopted, 2012)