Nevada's Laws on Keeping Bees

General/standard information regarding keeping bees in Nevada - North and South* Africanized bees

• NRS 552.085 Definitions.
• NRS 552.0851 “Apiary” defined.
• NRS 552.0852 “Appliance” defined.
• NRS 552.0853 “Bees” defined.
• NRS 552.0854 “Colony” defined.
• NRS 552.0855 “Colony strength” defined.
• NRS 552.08555 “Department” defined.
• NRS 552.08575 “Director” defined.
• NRS 552.0858 “Disease” defined.
• NRS 552.086 “Hive” defined.
• NRS 552.0861 “Inspector” defined.
• NRS 552.0862 “Location” defined.
• NRS 552.095 Control of apiary industry: Authority of Department; adoption of regulations; imposition and use of civil penalty.
• NRS 552.160 Inspection of apiaries; order for destruction or treatment; quarantine; abatement of certain nuisances.
• NRS 552.170 Abatement of nuisance for failure to comply with order for destruction or treatment.
• NRS 552.180 Right of access of inspectors.
• NRS 552.190 Duties of inspectors after inspections.
• NRS 552.205 Colony strength: Establishment of standards; inspectors; certification; fees.
• NRS 552.212 Importation of queens or other bees in screened cages without comb: Certificate of inspection; holding and destruction of bees.
• NRS 552.215 Fees for inspections.
• NRS 552.230 Bees to be kept in movable frame hives.
• NRS 552.240 Concealment of disease or exposure of bees to disease unlawful.
• NRS 552.250 Regulation of neglected or abandoned used hives or appliances.
• NRS 552.255 Public nuisances: Declaration; abatement.
• NRS 552.260 Extraction of honey.
• NRS 552.280 Removal or distribution of diseased bees without permission unlawful.
• NRS 552.290 Chapter supplemental to state law governing quarantines.