                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 3.2-4400)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Apiary&#8221; means any place where one or more colonies of bees are
kept.
		&#8220;Appliance&#8221; means any apparatus, tool, machine, or other device
used in the handling and manipulating of bees, honey, wax, hives, and hive parts
and shall include containers used in transporting, processing, storing, or
merchandising bees and bee products.
		&#8220;Bee&#8221; means the honeybee, Apis mellifera and genetic variations
thereof, at any living stage; and may include other hymenopterous insects that
depend on pollen and nectar for food.
		&#8220;Bee diseases&#8221; means departures from a sound state of health of
bees characterized by visible symptoms including American foulbrood and any
other diseases, insects, mites, or bee pests.
		&#8220;Bee equipment&#8221; means hives and hive parts including frames,
supers, covers, bottom boards, and beekeeping apparel.
		&#8220;Brood comb&#8221; means the assemblage of cells containing any living
stage of bees at any time prior to their emergence as adults.
		&#8220;Certificate of health&#8221; means a state-of-origin document prepared
and signed by the State Apiarist or other authorized person declaring the bees,
bee equipment, appliances, apiaries, and honey houses to be free of bee
diseases.
		&#8220;Colony&#8221; means a queenright assemblage of social bees capable of
reproducing.
		&#8220;Combless package&#8221; means a shipping container for transporting
bees or queens.
		&#8220;Entry permit&#8221; means a state-of-destination document prepared by
the State Apiarist or other authorized person authorizing the entry of bee
equipment, appliances, and bees on combs into the Commonwealth.
		&#8220;Hive&#8221; means a box, skep, barrel, log gum, or other container used
as a domicile for bees.
		&#8220;Honey house&#8221; means any building where honey for commercial use is
extracted, graded, processed, packed, or stored.
		&#8220;Person&#8221; means the term as defined in § 1-230. The term also
means any society.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 3-483; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-588; 1972, c. 499, §
3.1-610.1; 1982, c. 100; 2008, c. 860.