§ 5-120. Definitions.

In this article, the following terms have the stated meanings:

"Apiary" means the assembly of one or more colonies of bees at a single location.

"Beekeeper" means a person who owns or has charge of one or more colonies of bees.

"Beekeeping equipment" means anything used in the operation of an apiary, such as hive bodies, supers, frames, top and bottom boards and extractors.

"Colony" means an aggregate of bees consisting principally of workers, but having, when perfect, one queen and at times drones, brood, combs, and honey.

"Hive" means the receptacle inhabited by a colony that is manufactured for that purpose.

"Honey bee" means all life stages of the common domestic honey bee, apis mellifera species.

"Lot" means a contiguous parcel of land under common ownership.

"Undeveloped property" means any idle land that is not improved or actually in the process of being improved with residential, commercial, industrial, church, park, school or governmental facilities or other structures or improvements intended for human use or occupancy and the grounds maintained in associations therewith. The term shall be deemed to include property developed exclusively as a street or highway or property used for commercial agricultural purposes.

(Ord. No. 634, § 2, 6-25-18)