Title 4, Title 4 and Animal Husbandry

(a) Each colony within an apiary shall be identified with the owner’s name and address. This identification may be affixed to external parts of the colony or placed between the inner and outer covers of each colony. (b) When a colony or apiary is deemed to be abandoned written no…

The inspector of apiaries shall make annual written reports to the director of the department of environmental management, giving the number of colonies inspected, the number of diseased colonies found, the number of colonies treated, and the number of colonies destroyed. A recor…

The director shall, from time to time, make regulations carrying out the provisions and requirements of §§ 4-12-1 — 4-12-17, including regulations under which inspectors and other employees shall: (1) Inspect apiaries and equipment associated with beekeeping; (2) Investigate, con…

(a) A beekeeping advisory board shall be established. (b) The board shall consist of six (6) members appointed for terms as indicated: (1) The president of the Rhode Island beekeeping association (1 year). (2) Two (2) members from the Rhode Island beekeeping association appointed…

Any person who violates any provision or requirement of §§ 4-12-1 — 4-12-16 or who forges, counterfeits, defaces, destroys, or wrongfully uses or possesses any certificate provided for in §§ 4-12-5 — 4-12-14 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be pun…

As used in §§ 4-12-2 — 4-12-17 unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms mean: (1) “Abandoned colony or apiary” means any colony or apiary that is not currently registered and has not been registered within the preceding two (2) years and/or that the insp…

The director of environmental management shall appoint an inspector of apiaries, who shall assist in the enforcement of this chapter, under the supervision of the director. For those purposes, this inspector may, with the approval of the director, employ any deputies and assistan…

Any person appointed by the director as an apiary inspector shall be a practical beekeeper who before being appointed shall furnish the director with satisfactory evidence that the appointee possesses a practical knowledge of beekeeping and is familiar with the diagnosis and trea…

(a) The director of environmental management, to determine the presence or absence of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases or honey bee pests, shall annually either: (1) Inspect twenty percent (20%) of the bee colonies located within thirty-three percent (33%) of the s…

(a) Any bees kept in anything other than a hive with removable frames (which must be reasonably removable) such as box hives or other receptacles, natural or artificial, shall be deemed impossible to inspect unless the owner of these bees removes the brood or makes the brood acce…

(a) If, by reason of an owner requested inspection, the director is satisfied that no apparent disease or pest exists in any colony in an apiary, the director shall issue to the owner a certificate of health setting out the date of the inspection, the number of colonies and the r…

(a) It is unlawful to move, carry, transport, or ship bees, bees on comb, combs, or used beekeeping equipment into the state unless accompanied by a valid permit issued by the director of environmental management. Applications for a permit to transport bees or used beekeeping equ…

Whenever the director finds that there exists in any other state, territory, or district or part of any state, territory, or district, any harmful pests or diseases of honey bees, the director shall promulgate, and enforce by appropriate regulations, a quarantine prohibiting the …