11-6-308. District boards; relation to ADMB; duties generally.
(a) Each predator management district board shall:
(i) Exercise general supervision in determining local priorities for the management of predatory animals and predacious birds that prey upon and destroy livestock, other domestic animals, wildlife and crops;
(ii) Devise and put in operation those methods that best manage predatory animals and predacious birds;
(iii) Administer funds received to carry out the animal damage management program;
(iv) Maintain existing financial and physical resources;
(v) Provide input to the ADMB.
11-6-309. Predator management district participation with the ADMB.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, if the predator management district has elected to participate in providing funding or upon approval of the ADMB, other in-kind resources, to the animal damage management account, the district may solicit funds or receive services from the ADMB under separate negotiated agreement. Two (2) or more districts may jointly solicit funds or receive services from the ADMB for purposes of this section.
(b) Whether or not a predator management district has elected to participate in providing funding to the animal damage management account, the district may solicit funds or receive services from the ADMB for control of gray wolves designated as predatory animals.
(c) In any area of the state not under the jurisdiction of a county predatory animal board, eligible applicants for funds appropriated to the animal damage management board for the purpose of controlling wolves designated as predatory animals include state or county agencies.
The state predator management advisory board or the ADMB may exempt persons from payment of the imposed fees when the respective board determines that livestock as defined in this act are permanently confined within pens or corrals within incorporated city limits where animal damage control activity by state or federal agencies is prohibited or severely restricted.
The ADMB may enter into cooperative agreements with other governmental agencies, counties, associations, corporations or individuals for carrying out the purposes of this article.
(a) As used in this chapter:
(i) "Apiary" means a place where one (1) or more colonies of bees or one (1) or more hives containing honeycombs or bee combs are kept;
(ii) "Bee diseases" means American or European foulbrood, sacbrood, bee paralysis or other disease or abnormal condition of the egg, larval, pupal or adult stages of bees, including bee parasites and bee pests;
(iii) "Bees" means any stage of the life cycle in the genus Apis;
(iv) "Colony" means the bees, hive and all equipment used in connection with the hive;
(v) "Comb" means the brood chamber used by the queen for the protection of brood;
(vi) "Department" means the department of agriculture;
(vii) "Equipment" means hives, supers, frames, veils, gloves or any apparatus, tools, machines or other devices used in the handling and manipulation of bees, honey, wax and hives and includes any container of honey and wax which may be used in an apiary or in transporting bees and their products and apiary supplies;
(viii) "Family unit" means two (2) or more persons living together or residing in the same dwelling, house or other place of residence;
(ix) "General apiary" means any apiary other than a pollination apiary, landowner apiary or hobbyist apiary;
(x) "Hive" means a frame hive, box hive, box, barrel, log gun, skep or other receptacle or container or a part of a container, natural or artificial, which may be used as a domicile for bees;
(xi) "Hobbyist apiary" means an apiary owned by a hobbyist beekeeper;
(xii) "Hobbyist beekeeper" means a person who owns a total of not more than five (5) hives;
(xiii) "Landowner" means the person who has the actual use and exclusive possession of the land upon which a landowner apiary is to be registered, except that a person leasing or renting land for the primary purpose of locating or establishing an apiary thereon is not considered a landowner;
(xiv) "Landowner apiary" means an apiary owned by a landowner as defined in this section;
(xv) "Person" means any individual, association, partnership or corporation;
(xvi) "Pollination apiary" means an apiary operated for pollination of commercial seed, fruit or other commercial agricultural product as provided in W.S. 11-7-203;
(xvii) "Queen apiary" means an apiary or premises in which queen bees are reared or kept for sale or gift;
(xviii) "Bee parasites" means mites, including but not limited to varroa mites and tracheal mites;
(xix) "Bee pests" means insects, including but not limited to small hive beetles and red imported fire ants;
(xx) "General beekeeper" means a person who owns more than five (5) hives and manages and operates the bees and the hives;
(xxi) "Global positioning system or GPS" means a device that provides accuracy in positioning using latitude and longitude coordinates;
(xxii) "Holding yard" means an area where colonies are temporarily placed prior to leaving the state or returning from pollination in another state;
(xxiii) "Spray yard" means a temporary location where colonies are moved prior to any pesticide application in the area of the beekeeper's registered location.
Registration and inspection fees collected under this chapter shall be transmitted by the department to the state treasurer for deposit in the general fund.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than six (6) months, or both. Each day the violation continues constitutes a separate offense.
(a) Any person who owns or possesses any class of apiary in this state shall register that apiary with the department before April 1 of each year.
(b) Application for registration shall be made to the department on forms it prescribes and furnishes and shall include:
(i) The applicant's name and address;
(ii) The total number of colonies of bees the beekeeper owns;
(iii) The location of the apiary, setting forth specifically the location by sectional division to the nearest quarter section, the township and range and the latitude and longitude coordinates, or if within the corporate limits of a municipality, the number of the lot and block in the municipality including street address and the latitude and longitude coordinates determined using GPS. All new registrations shall include latitude and longitude coordinates. Effective July 1, 2012, latitude and longitude coordinates shall be required for all apiary registrations;
(iv) The name of the owner, renter or occupant of the land on which the apiary is located and, if the application is for an apiary being registered for the first time, it shall also show that the owner, renter or occupant of the land has consented to the apiary being located on his land;
(v) The date the apiary was first established which shall be included for each location on yearly apiary renewal applications; and
(vi) The class of apiary registration for which application is being made.
(c) Upon receipt of the application and payment of the fees, the department may issue a certificate of registration for an apiary, setting forth:
(i) The name of the owner;
(ii) The specific location of the apiary; and
(iii) The class of apiary authorized.
(d) In issuing certificates of registration for apiaries, if there is a conflict between applicants with respect to location, the department shall give preference to the applicant having the oldest, continuous apiary registration.
(e) Certificates of registration shall not be issued for new apiaries which are within such close proximity to established registered apiaries that there is danger of spread of bee diseases, bee parasites or bee pests or that the proximity may interfere with the proper feeding and honey flow of established apiaries.
(f) Each apiary registrant shall post in a conspicuous location at or near each apiary he owns legible evidence of registration, including his name and telephone number.
(g) The department shall notify each registrant of his delinquency, if that registrant fails to reregister by April 1 of each year. The notification shall be by certified mail and is sufficient if deposited in a United States post office or mail box at least ten (10) days before May 1 and addressed to the registrant at his last address appearing in the department's apiary registration files. Any apiary registration which has not been received by May 1 of each year is forfeited and all rights under the registration terminate.
(h) Any person who owns or possesses any bees, hives, colonies or beekeeping equipment in this state or who owns or possesses an apiary in this state and who fails or refuses to register that apiary as provided in this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof is subject to the penalties set forth in W.S. 11-7-133.
(j) Repealed By Laws 2010, Ch. 14, § 3.