Lincoln allows residential beekeeping under Lincoln Municipal Code Chapter 6.16 (Apiaries), with hive setbacks from dwellings and lot lines and a cap on hives tied to lot size. Registration/permitting and flyway-barrier and water requirements apply. Unincorporated county keeping follows county zoning.
Lincoln Municipal Code Chapter 6.16 (Apiaries) permits urban beekeeping subject to hive placement setbacks from neighboring dwellings and from lot lines, sidewalks, alleys, and public ways, and limits the number of hives based on lot area (roughly one hive per set amount of square footage). Beekeepers are generally expected to provide a water source and, where hives are near lot lines, a flyway barrier to push bee flight paths upward. In unincorporated Lancaster County, beekeeping on acreages is governed by the County Zoning Resolution rather than the city apiary chapter. Nebraska has no statewide homeowner beekeeping ban.
Keeping hives that violate the setback or hive-count limits in Chapter 6.16 is a municipal violation and can result in fines or an order to relocate or remove hives.
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