Glenn County, CA Animal Ordinances: Beekeeping (2026)

00 registration fee covering the location of each apiary and its number of colonies; apiaries newly brought into the county register within 30 days of arrival. 080 sets the core siting standard: no apiary may sit closer than 300 feet to a dwelling other than the beekeeper's own, though that limit does not apply if the residential use came after the apiary was already operating year-round (absent a Commissioner finding of danger), if adequate flight-dispersing barriers such as a fence or tree line are maintained, or if the affected resident gives written permission waiving the distance.

The same section bars keeping an apiary within 100 feet of the traveled portion of a public road right-of-way without the Commissioner's prior approval, except for temporary transport or crop pollination, and pollinating apiaries lose that exemption 30 days after crop bloom ends. 090 requires either a natural water source within one mile or fresh water the beekeeper maintains within 50 yards of the hive. 060 requires written landowner permission before placing an apiary on another person's land. 120, adopted by Ordinance 1201 in 2008, bars knowingly keeping Africanized honey bees.