Except as provided in Section 29123, the certificate required by Section 29120 shall be signed by the State Entomologist, State Apiary Inspector, or comparable officer in charge of apiary inspection for the state or territory of origin and shall certify to all of the following facts:

(a) The name and address of the owner or shipper and the place of destination in this state.

(b) The number or amount of queen bees, package bees, bee semen, hives, or nuclei that contain bees, the number of used hives either empty or containing comb, and a complete list of any other used beekeeping equipment in the shipment.

(c) The county and state or territory of origin.

(d) The date on which inspection was last made of the apiary in which the bees, comb, used hives, and appliances originated.

(e) That the apiary was found free of all pests denoted as pests by the State of California, using detection procedures and methods approved by the secretary.

(f) If the pest is American foulbrood, the total number of colonies in the apiary at the time of inspection, and the number of colonies found infested.

(g) That all American foulbrood colonies of bees found upon inspection were destroyed, removed to a quarantine apiary, removed to wax salvage, or other specified methods of destruction pursuant to Section 29208, before the issuance of the certificates.

(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 683, Sec. 13. (AB 719) Effective January 1, 2023.)