Annual bee registration fees will remain at $10 per beekeeper.įunding for the new sensitive site layer in Cal Ag Permits came from the California Department of Food and Agriculture and California Department of Pesticide Regulation. 1, 2019 makes it unlawful to maintain an unregistered apiary. While previous law required beekeepers to register their bees with county agricultural departments, it was effectively unenforceable, said Riverside County Agricultural Commissioner Ruben Arroyo. Agricultural commissioners and the bee industry will continue to meet over the next year on appropriate fines that could range from $50 to $1,000. Pest control advisors at the recent annual meeting of the California Association of Pest Control Advisors (CAPCA) were the first to publicly hear about the 18-month effort to create an updated system to foster compliance of a law long-ignored and better communication between stakeholders, according to Ruthann Anderson, CAPCA chief executive officer.ĭubbed “Bee Where,” the new program gives agricultural commissioners, starting in 2020, the authority to seek administrative civil penalties when a beekeeper does not register or does not provide notification of movement of bees. California agricultural commissioners will soon have the regulatory “teeth” they sought to enforce bee registration each year – something they long complained was needed to protect pollinators.
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