Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 3 > Chapter 75 - Bee Keeping

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Apiary: means any place where one or more colonies of honey bees are kept. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appliances: means any apparatus, tools, machine, or other device used in the handling of bees, honey, wax and hives, and includes smokers, veils, gloves, hive tools, extractors, as well as any container of bees, honey or wax which may be used in an apiary or in transporting bees and their products. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Bee equipment: means hives, supers, frames, sections, wax foundation, wax, comb and honey. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Bees: means any stage of development of the common honey bee, Apis mellifera, or of any other bee species being transported into Delaware for any purpose. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Colony: means the hive and its bees, comb and equipment. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Control: means to curb or hold in check and includes, but is not limited to, abatement, containment, eradication, extermination or suppression. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Delaware Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Eradication: means to burn or discard of bees, combs, and frames, or other equipment. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Exotic mite: means Tropilaelaps clarae, Varroa jacobsoni, Varroa rindereri, Varroa sinhai, Varroa wongsirii, or other non-endemic species. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Hive: means frame hive, box hive, barrel, log gum, skep or any other container, or any part thereof, which may be used as a domicile for bees. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Inspector: means any qualified person who is appointed by the Department for the purpose of inspecting honey bee colonies. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Mite: means Acarapis woodi, Varroa destructor. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Mite infestation: means the parasite or pathogen will threaten the colony health if action is not taken. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 7501
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.