Bill Text: NJ A3336 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits Dept. of Agriculture from regulating minimum property size required per number of honeybee hives.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee [A3336 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A3336-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 3336

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 12, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  KEVIN J. ROONEY

District 40 (Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits Dept. of Agriculture from regulating minimum property size required per number of honeybee hives.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the regulation of bees and apiary activities, and supplementing Title 4 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Notwithstanding any law or rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto to the contrary, the Department of Agriculture shall not regulate the minimum property size required per number of hives for the purpose of keeping honeybees or related apiary activities.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits the Department of Agriculture from regulating the minimum property size required per number of hives for the purpose of keeping honeybees or related apiary activities.