Beekeeping is legal across unincorporated Mobile County and treated as agriculture. Ala. Code §2-14-3 requires every beekeeper to register their colonies each year by October 1 with the state Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.
Keeping honeybees is lawful throughout unincorporated Mobile County, and no county permit exists. The one binding rule is statewide: Ala. Code §2-14-3 requires every beekeeper to register each colony, bee yard, and apiary on or before October 1 each year with the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, on forms showing the number and location of hives. The state apiary program, not the county, sets the fee and inspects for bee diseases and pests like the small hive beetle common on the Gulf Coast. Registration also protects the beekeeper by putting hive locations on record before nearby pesticide application. Cities may add hive-placement setbacks; the county does not.
Failing to register colonies by October 1 violates §2-14-3 and is punishable under the chapter's penalty provisions, enforced by the state apiary inspector. The county imposes no separate beekeeping penalty.
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