§ 6.08.060. Distance from dwellings.

A.

No person shall place or keep any apiary or cause or allow any apiary to remain closer than three hundred feet to any residence or dwelling other than a residence or dwelling owned or possessed by that person or where the apiary is placed or kept with permission from the landowner. Any apiary kept in violation of this subsection is expressly declared to be a public nuisance and such an apiary must be relocated in compliance with this section. The restrictions of this subsection are subject to the following exceptions:

1.

If the use as a residence or dwelling commenced after an apiary commenced operation, the three-hundred-foot limitation shall apply only if the commissioner declares the apiary or apiaries to constitute a public nuisance;

2.

The three-hundred-foot limitation does not apply if adequate flight dispersing barriers are constructed and maintained which, to the satisfaction of the commissioner, serve to prevent the apiary or apiaries from constituting a public nuisance.

B.

No person shall place or keep any apiary, or cause or allow an apiary to remain closer than one hundred feet from any public highway, except for temporary purposes of transporting the same.

C.

No person shall maintain an apiary in any manner that prevents or hinders access to the inside of any hive for inspection by the commissioner.

D.

Any person in possession or control of an apiary shall, within five days after receipt of a written request from the commissioner, provide to the commissioner a written list of the number and current location of all apiaries in the person's possession or control within the county.

(Ord. No. 2013-05, § I, 10-15-2013)