The maintaining of bees or the erection, placing or maintaining of beehives on any parcel of land within this City is declared to be a nuisance and unlawful unless the bees or beehives are kept and maintained in accordance with the following regulations:
(a) No more than three colonies of bees or beehives shall be placed or maintained on any one parcel of land.
(b) No beehive shall be placed or maintained within fifty feet of any building other than the buildings owned or occupied by the keeper of the hives or bees, nor within twenty feet of any boundary line of the parcel.
(c) Every beehive or colony of bees placed or maintained on premises shall be located at least ten feet above the ground or shall be so screened as effectively to require bees entering or leaving the hives to fly at least ten feet above the level of the ground at the nearest boundary of the parcel owned or occupied by the keeper of the bees unless hives are more than 200 feet from any building.
(Ord. 74-36. Passed 5-6-74.)