San Bernardino Municipal Code Ch. 8.03 Apiaries

Section

Statutory reference:

For provisions on bees, see Cal. Food and Agricultural Code, §§ 29000 et seq.

The Mayor and City Council do determine and declare that the maintenance of apiaries and the keeping of bees in larger numbers than two stands or swarms within the city has become and is dangerous to the inhabitants of the city, and become and is an obstruction to the free use of property in the city, so as to interfere with and prevent the comfortable enjoyment of life and property of a considerable number of persons, residents of the city; and the maintenance of apiaries and the keeping of bees in larger numbers than two stands or swarms at any one place within the city is a public nuisance.

(Ord. 421, passed 9-13-1909)

It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to keep or maintain an apiary or keep or maintain more than two stands or swarms of bees at any one place within the corporate limits of the city.

(Ord. 421, passed 9-13-1909)

Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this chapter is guilty of infraction, which, upon conviction thereof, is punishable in accordance with the provisions of § 1.12.010.

(Ord. 421, passed 9-13-1909; Ord. MC-460, passed 5-15-1985)