Food & Agr. Code, § 29312 · Article 15. Enforcement and Penalties
Food & Agr. Code, § 29312
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
In any civil action for the wrongful and willful taking, possessing, harboring, or transporting of a beehive, for the wrongful and willful removal of bees from their beehive, or for the wrongful and willful killing or destroying of bees without the consent of the owner or the person lawfully in possession of those bees, the damage caused to the plaintiff shall be three times the value of the bees at the time of the taking, possessing, harboring, transporting, destroying, or vandalizing of the bees, plus an amount in fair compensation for the time and money properly expended by the plaintiff in recovering or replacing the bees.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 138, Sec. 2. (AB 2755) Effective January 1, 2017.
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