§ 44-15-101 Title – Purpose
§ 44-15-102 Chapter definitions
§ 44-15-103 State apiarist
§ 44-15-104 Cooperative agreements
§ 44-15-105 Registration of apiaries
§ 44-15-106 Moveable frames
§ 44-15-107 Inspection program
§ 44-15-108 Sale or movement of bees
§ 44-15-109 Duty to report disease or pest – Authority to inspect
§ 44-15-110 Quarantine – Unlawful to expose free-flying honeybees to disease, pest, or any substance known to kill bees
§ 44-15-111 Certification program
§ 44-15-112 Used beekeeping equipment
§ 44-15-113 Entry permit – Inspection certificates
§ 44-15-114 Penalty
§ 44-15-115 Disposition of funds
§ 44-15-116 Experimental apiaries
§ 44-15-117 Disposition of confiscated bees and beehives
§ 44-15-118 Preventive measures
§ 44-15-119 Unlawful activities
§ 44-15-120 Honey storage and handling
§ 44-15-121 Previous rules and regulations revoked – Authority to promulgate new rules
§ 44-15-122 Charges
§ 44-15-123 Indemnity for destruction
§ 44-15-124 Restrictions on keeping honeybees in hives
§ 44-15-125 Liability for personal injury or property damage

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 44 > Chapter 15 - Tennessee Apiary Act of 1995

  • Agency: means the Tennessee housing development agency created by this part. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Agriculture: means :
    (i) The land, buildings and machinery used in the commercial production of farm products and nursery stock. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Apiary: means a collection of one (1) or more colonies of bees in beehives at a location. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Apiary inspectors: means those persons with relevant qualifications and beekeeping training who are employed by or working under contract with the department of agriculture for the purpose of implementing regulatory programs as directed by the state apiarist. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Appliances: means any apparatus, tools, machines or other devices used in handling and manipulating bees, honey, and wax that may be used in an apiary, or in transporting bees and their products and apiary supplies. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bee disease or pest: means a condition in which a colony is infested/infected with a bacterial, fungal, viral, or parasitic condition or an organism that can or will affect the well-being of a colony. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • beehive: means that container or structure used by a beekeeper to provide a cavity in which a colony of bees is expected to establish a permanent nest. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Beekeeper: means any individual, association, corporation, or other entity who deliberately provides nesting sites for colonies of honeybees and attempts to establish and maintain colonies of honeybees at any location. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Certification: means a voluntary training program approved by the department that when successfully completed authorizes the beekeeper to detect, identify, and control regulated bee diseases and pests in colonies under the management of that beekeeper. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Certified beekeeper: means any person who has successfully met the requirements of a voluntary certification program for beekeepers as approved by the state apiarist. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Colony: means all of the bees living together as one (1) social unit and may include the bee equipment in which the bees are living. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner's designated agent. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Department: means the Tennessee department of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Deteriorated: means any structure or vacant or unimproved lot or parcel in a predominantly built-up neighborhood:
    (A) That, because of physical condition or use, is regarded as a public nuisance at common law or has been declared a public nuisance in accordance with local housing, building, plumbing, electrical, fire, health or related codes. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
  • Dwelling: means any building or structure, or part thereof, used and occupied for human occupation or use or intended to be so used, and includes any outhouses and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
  • Dwelling unit: means a building or structure or part thereof that is used for a home or residence by one (1) or more persons who maintain a household. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Governing body: means the council, commission, or board, or other legislative body, charged with governing a municipality. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
  • Governmental agency: means any department, division, public agency, political subdivision or other public instrumentality of the state, the federal government, and other state or public agency, or any two (2) or more thereof. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • honeybees: means any developmental stage of any sub- species of the species Apis mellifem. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • Housing cost index: means an index of specific housing cost factors to the average Tennessee household calculated monthly or at such times as the agency may require, based on the following formula:

    The median gross monthly household income divided into the sum of:

    (A) The monthly mortgage payment for the average Tennessee household based on a thirty-year mortgage, at the prevailing mortgage interest rate on a mortgage amount sufficient to purchase a standard housing structure that will meet minimum property standards as established by the federal housing administration, including an amount representative of the average yield in discount points and servicing fees to the lender on such mortgage, based on the average discount paid at the latest Federal National Mortgage Association mortgage auction sale. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Insured construction loan: means a construction loan for land development or residential housing which is secured by a federally insured mortgage or which is insured or guaranteed by the United States or an instrumentality thereof, or for which there is a commitment by the United States or instrumentality thereof to insure or guarantee such a loan, or a construction loan which is secured by a policy of insurance or guarantee issued by any private mortgage insurer qualified to issue such insurance or guarantee in Tennessee and approved by the agency, or for which there is a commitment to insure or guarantee such loans made by any private mortgage insurer qualified to do business in Tennessee and approved by the agency, or a construction loan insured or guaranteed by an agency or instrumentality of the state authorized by law to issue such insurance or guarantee, or for which there is a commitment to insure or guarantee such loan made by such agency or instrumentality of the state. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • insured mortgage loan: means a mortgage loan for residential housing insured or guaranteed by the United States or any instrumentality thereof, or for which there is a commitment by the United States or instrumentality thereof to insure or guarantee such a mortgage, or a mortgage loan which is secured by a policy of insurance or guarantee issued by any private mortgage insurer qualified to issue such insurance or guarantee in Tennessee and approved by the agency, or for which there is a commitment to insure or guarantee such loan made by any private mortgage insurer qualified to do business in Tennessee and approved by the agency, or a mortgage loan insured or guaranteed by any agency or instrumentality of the state authorized by law to issue such insurance, or for which there is a commitment to insure or guarantee such loan made by such agency or instrumentality of the state. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Land development: means the process of acquiring land primarily for residential housing construction for persons and families of lower and moderate income and making, installing or constructing nonresidential housing improvements, including water, sewer and other utilities, roads, streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, storm drainage facilities and other installations or works, whether on or off the site, which the agency deems necessary or desirable to prepare such land primarily for residential housing construction within this state. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Mortgage: includes deeds of trust, mortgages, building and loan contracts or other instruments conveying real or personal property as security for bonds and conferring a right to foreclose and cause a sale thereof. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Municipality: means any county, including any county having a metropolitan form of government, or incorporated city or town in this state. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
  • notes: means the bonds and notes respectively authorized to be issued by the agency under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Oath: includes affirmation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligations: means any bonds or notes authorized to be issued by the agency under this part. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Owner: means the holder of the title to real property and every mortgagee of record. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Persons and families of lower and moderate income: means persons and families irrespective of race, creed, national origin, age or sex deemed by the agency to require such assistance as is made available by this chapter on account of insufficient personal or family income based upon the income limits established by the board of directors. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Public authority: means any department, agency or branch of the government of the municipality or state relating to health, fire, building regulations, or other activities concerning structures in the municipality. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
  • qualified lender: means any bank or trust company, federally approved mortgagee, insurance company, mortgage banking institution, federally insured savings and loan association or insured state building and loan association, which is located and authorized to do business in the state, and which is approved by the agency, or the federal national mortgage association. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Residential housing: means a specific work or improvement within this state undertaken primarily to provide dwelling accommodations for persons and families of lower and moderate income, including the acquisition, construction or rehabilitation of land, buildings and improvements thereto and such other nonhousing facilities as may be incidental or appurtenant thereto. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Savings and loan association: includes a building and loan association, a federal or state savings and loan association, a federal savings bank, and any other financial institution, the accounts of which are insured by the federal savings and loan insurance corporation (FSLIC) or any successor of such corporation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Servicing fees: means that sum paid for the reasonable value of services rendered to the agency for the servicing of mortgages it acquires. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • Servicing of mortgages: means the collection and payment of all principal and interest and all reasonable fees and charges by the lender for mortgages acquired by the agency. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
  • State apiarist: means that person employed by the department who has the qualifications prescribed by this chapter and has been designated as state apiarist by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105