§ 18-12. Definitions.
As used in this article, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed in this section unless the context of their usage clearly indicates another meaning:
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/hive means an aggregate of bees consisting principally of workers, but having, when perfect, one queen and at time many drones, including brood, combs, honey and the receptacle inhabited by the bees.
Honey bee means all life stages of the common domestic honey bee, Apis Mellifera species.
(Ord. No. 2014-4 , § 2, 10-6-2014)