Utah Code Title 4. Utah Agricultural Code § 4-11-102. Definitions

(1) “Abandoned apiary” means any apiary to which the owner or operator fails to give reasonable and adequate attention during a given year as determined by the department.

(2) “Apiary” means any place where one or more colonies of bees are located.

(3) “Apiary equipment” means hives, supers, frames, veils, gloves, or other equipment used to handle or manipulate bees, honey, wax, or hives.

(4) “Appliance” means any apparatus, tool, machine, or other device used to handle or manipulate bees, wax, honey, or hives.

(5) “Bee” means the common honey bee, Apis mellifera, at any stage of development.

(7) “Colony” means an aggregation of bees in any type of hive that includes queens, workers, drones, or brood.

(8) “Disease” means any infectious or contagious disease affecting bees, as specified by the department, including American foulbrood.

(9) “Hive” means a frame hive, box hive, box, barrel, log, gum skep, or other artificial or natural receptacle that may be used to house bees.

(10) “Package” means any number of bees in a bee-tight container, with or without a queen, and without comb.

(11) “Parasite” means an organism that parasitizes any developmental stage of a bee.

(12) “Pest” means an organism that:

(13) “Raise” means:

(14) “Terminal disease” means a pest, parasite, or pathogen that will kill an occupant colony or subsequent colony on the same equipment.