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(a) <br />(b) <br />(1) <br />(2) <br />(3) <br />(4) <br />(5) <br />(c) <br />(1) <br />(2) <br />(3) <br />(4) <br />(5) <br />(6) <br />Sec. 10-11. - Limited keeping of honeybees. <br />Intent and purpose. It is the intent and purpose of this section to set standards for the limited keeping of honeybees in urban settings <br />as a non-commercial hobby independent of the requirements found in section 10-5. <br />Definitions. <br />Beekeeping equipment means anything used in the operation of keeping honeybees, such as hive bodies, supers, frames, top and <br />bottom boards and extractors. <br />Colony means an aggregate of honeybees consisting principally of workers, but having, when perfect, one queen and at times <br />drones, brood, combs, and honey. <br />Hive means the receptacle inhabited by a colony that is manufactured for that purpose. <br />Honeybee means all life stages of the common domestic honeybee, Apis mellifera species of European origin. <br />Nucleus colony means a small quantity of honeybees with a queen housed in a smaller than usual hive box designed for a <br />particular purpose. <br />Conditions. The limited keeping of honeybees may be permitted as an accessory use to a single family residence subject to the <br />following: <br />The property shall be occupied with a single-family home. The owner of the honeybees shall live in the dwelling on the property. <br />The property owner shall be in receipt of a license as required by this Ordinance. <br />Honeybees shall be kept in hives with removable frames, which shall be kept in sound and usable condition. <br />A convenient source of water shall be available to the colony prior to and so long as colonies remain active outside of the hive. <br />No wax comb or other material that might encourage robbing by other bees shall be left upon the property. Such materials once <br />removed from the site shall be handled and stored in sealed containers, or placed within a building or other insect-proof <br />container. <br />For each colony, there may also be maintained upon the same lot, one nucleus colony in a hive structure not to exceed one <br />standard nine and five-eighths inch depth ten-frame hive body with no supers. <br />Beekeeping equipment shall be maintained in good condition including keeping the hives painted and securing unused equipment <br />from weather, potential theft or vandalism and occupancy by swarms. It shall be a violation of this section for any unused <br />equipment to attract a swarm, even if the property owner is not intentionally keeping honeybees.