Vermont Statutes Title 6 Sec. 3025
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 6 Sec. 3025
- Apiary: means a place where one or more colonies of bees are kept and shall include hives and bees. See
- Destroy: means to burn bees, combs, and frames, or other equipment that cannot be disinfected by scorching or other approved methods. See
- Disease: shall mean any serious malady that is infectious, contagious, or injurious to bees and shall include American foulbrood, European foulbrood, or external or internal parasites or parasitoids of bees. See
- Equipment: means hives, supers, and frames. See
- Inspector: means any person designated by the Secretary to inspect apiaries and enforce this chapter. See
- Owner: means a person who in any way owns, leases, possesses, or otherwise controls an apiary, colony, hive, bees, or equipment and shall include the agent of such person. See
- Secretary: means the Secretary of the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. See
§ 3025. Second inspection of diseased colonies; destruction
The Secretary or the Secretary’s inspectors shall inspect all diseased apiaries a second time not less than 10 days after the first inspection. If the existence of disease within the apiary has been confirmed by a laboratory approved by the Secretary, the inspector may destroy any colonies of bees if the inspector finds them not cured of such disease, or not treated or handled according to the inspector’s instructions, together with honey combs, hives, or other equipment, without recompense to the owner thereof. This section shall not preclude an inspector from destroying diseased colonies at any time with the consent of the owner or the owner’s agent. (Added 1983, No. 83, § 1; amended 2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003; 2019, No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), § 6; 2023, No. 6, § 59, eff. July 1, 2023; 2023, No. 73, § 8, eff. July 1, 2023.)