Beekeeping is legal across unincorporated Madison 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 Madison County, and no county permit exists for it. 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 varroa mite and small hive beetle. Registration also protects the beekeeper by recording hive locations before nearby pesticide application in the Tennessee Valley's farm country. 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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