N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 173-b: Eradication of bee diseases and certain insects affecting bees

§ 173-b. Eradication of bee diseases and certain insects affecting

bees. The commissioner may cause inspections to be made of apiaries in

the state for the discovery of infectious, contagious or communicable

diseases and for the discovery of insects and parasitic organisms

adversely affecting bees, and for the discovery of species or subspecies

of bees which have been determined by him to cause injury, directly or

indirectly, to this state's managed bee population, crops, or other

plants. The commissioner shall provide a beekeeper or such beekeeper's

designated agent with reasonable advance notice of any inspection of an

apiary. The commissioner may also cause investigations to be made as to

the best method for the eradication of diseases of bees, insects or

parasitic organisms adversely affecting bees, or for the eradication of

species or subspecies of bees which have been determined by the

commissioner to cause injury, directly or indirectly, to this state's

managed bee population, crops, or other plants and the commissioner may

plan and execute appropriate methods for such eradication.

The commissioner shall have access to all apiaries, structures,

appliances, buildings, vehicles, airplanes, vessels or premises where

bees or honey or comb used in apiaries may be and may open any hive,

colony, package or receptacle of any kind containing or which the

commissioner has reason to believe contains any bees, comb, bee

products, used beekeeping appliances, or anything else which is capable

of transmitting contagious or infectious diseases of bees or which is

capable of harboring insects or parasitic organisms adversely affecting

bees, or species or subspecies of bees which have been determined by the

commissioner to cause injury, directly or indirectly, to this state's

managed bee population, crops, or other plants.