New Bee Laws...Almost

In a land where law after law continues to be passed, here's an area I had no idea our government would exercise it's communistic views. I can certainly understand that controls should be exercised in any business, some even in a person's hobby. But, just what & how many laws need to be passed concerning the hobby of bee collection???

It seems it's all about the loss of freedoms, I mean, c'mon, wanting to limit the amount of hives, gosh, when will it end???

Indiana beekeepers derail proposed bee restrictions

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS • January 6, 2011
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Western Indiana beekeepers who swarmed county officials with complaints about proposed limits on their honey-making hobby have forced them to drop the proposed restrictions.

Vigo County’s beekeepers began buzzing early this week over the ordinance’s proposal to limit each person to one hive for every 10 acres of land owned unless the land is zoned for agricultural purposes. The Tribune-Star reports the ordinance also would have limited beekeeping to land parcels greater than 2 acres.

But county beekeepers complained that the rules would have put them out of business. Some said the restrictions were a particularly bad idea at a time when the nation’s honeybees are experiencing large, mysterious die-offs.

The head of the county’s planning department announced Wednesday that the provisions were being dropped from the proposed ordinance.