§ 29210 Apiary Infestation Appeal Process

• •If you get a notice saying your bees or beehives are sick or have bugs, you can ask for a second opinion.
• •You have to send a letter to the director before the time in the notice runs out.
• •You and the inspector must pick a small sample of the sick stuff together, seal it, and send it with the letter.
• •Both you and the inspector must sign a paper saying the sample came from the beehive in the notice.

You own some beehives, and an inspector says your bees have a bad disease. They give you a paper telling you to fix it in 10 days.

If you don’t think the bees are really sick, you can write a letter to the director and send a small piece of the beehive that the inspector says is sick. You and the inspector must pick the piece together, put it in a box, and both sign a note saying it came from your beehives. This lets someone else check if the bees are really sick.