South Dakota (SD)
On the runs: Northern Plains to Texas holding to California
Record held: 44 fields — 25 published, 18 not published / not yet checked, 1 conflicting (both sides shown).
This is a thin record because the state publishes little of this layer. What it publishes is below; every field it does not publish is marked plainly instead of filled in. A short page with honest gaps is the right page for this state.
Regulator
StateSouth Dakota
RegulatorSouth Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources — Apiary Program
Regulator typeDepartment of agriculture division (dept-of-agriculture-division)
Regulator contactSouth Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 523 E Capitol Ave, Pierre, SD 57501-3182 • 605-773-5559 (contact block on the DANR Apiary Inspection Program page; the page names Hunter Roberts as Department Secretary)
Instruments
Entry permit (entrance-permit · issued by the destination side)
FeeNot published / not yet checked
Validity windowNot published / not yet checked
Notice deadlineThe entrance-permit application is itself the advance filing: it is due thirty days before transporting bees or used bee equipment into the state (SDCL § 38-18-4). No separate notice deadline is published.
Lead timeThirty days before transporting bees or used bee equipment not included in a compliance agreement into the state, a person shall file with the secretary an application for an entrance permit; the secretary shall act upon an application within thirty days (SDCL § 38-18-4). DANR states the same dates: entrance permit applications must be submitted 30 days in advance of the expected arrival date, and the Secretary then has 30 days to approve or disapprove a request.
What the certificate must stateA certificate of health, pursuant to SDCL § 38-18-23, shall be filed with the secretary prior to approval of the entrance permit (SDCL § 38-18-4). The forms furnished by the secretary for registration or entrance permits contain, as necessary: the landowner's or lessee's name, address, date, and signature; the legal description of the location (county, quarter-section, section, township, and range); the crop, crop location, and number of acres to be pollinated; the date bees will be placed if the permit is temporary; a two-year history of the bees; fee calculations; and a certificate of consent to allow inspections of apiaries and honey houses (ARSD 12:41:02:03).
Origin history requiredA two-year history of the bees, including the state and county of each location and the dates the bees were in each location where the bees have been placed previously, is among the information the secretary's forms for registration or entrance permits contain as necessary (ARSD 12:41:02:03(5)). A two-year disease and location history with no lapse in registration is likewise required to transfer a permanent location permit (ARSD 12:41:03:04.01).
Who applies / who signsThe person transporting the bees applies to the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources: 'Movement of bees into South Dakota requires an entrance permit from the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources. This applies to queens, nucs, packages, colonies and equipment.' (DANR Apiary Inspection Program page)
Health / inspection certificate (certificate-of-health · issued by the origin side)
FeeNot published / not yet checked
Validity windowInspection within ninety days of shipment: 'The certificate of health shall certify to the apparent freedom from regulated pests, and shall be based on actual inspection of bees and material within ninety days of the date of shipment.' (SDCL § 38-18-23)
Notice deadlineA certificate of health, pursuant to SDCL § 38-18-23, shall be filed with the secretary prior to approval of the entrance permit (SDCL § 38-18-4) — in practice with the entrance-permit application filed thirty days before transport.
Lead timeNot published / not yet checked
What the certificate must stateThe certificate of health shall certify to the apparent freedom from regulated pests, and shall be based on actual inspection of bees and material (SDCL § 38-18-23).
Origin history requiredNot published / not yet checked
Who applies / who signsAnyone who brings bees into the state must have a health certificate from the state of origin (DANR Apiary Inspection Program page). For movement out of the state, those who wish to move bees out of South Dakota may use the inspection service provided by the state (DANR).
Registration (registration · issued by the destination side)
Fee$16 (per-permanent-location) — SDCL § 38-18-5 as amended by 2023 House Bill 1025 (enrolled): 'Any person registering an apiary pursuant to § 38-18-3 shall pay a registration fee of sixteen dollars per permanent location and forty dollars per temporary location.' Separately, a continuing annual assessment of one dollar per location is imposed at registration for the honey industry fund (SDCL § 38-18-36).The other published figure: $11 (per-apiary) — 'The registration fee, based on a per-apiary basis, covers all routine inspections and sampling. The fee is $11 per apiary, plus $1 per apiary for the Honey Promotion Fund.' (DANR Apiary Inspection Program page — this is the pre-2023 statutory figure and does not distinguish permanent from temporary locations.)
Validity windowAnnual: all apiaries, including hobbyists, must be registered with the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources by February 1st each year, or within 10 days after coming into possession of an apiary (DANR Apiary Inspection Program page, summarizing SDCL 38-18).
Notice deadlineNot published / not yet checked
Lead timeThe registration application shall be filed before the first day of February each year or within ten days of acquiring ownership or possession of any bees or apiary or before moving bees into the state (SDCL § 38-18-3).
What the certificate must stateThe application shall contain each location by legal description, the name of the landowner or lessee of the location, the number of colonies of bees in each apiary, and any other information required by the secretary (SDCL § 38-18-3). Before a person may apply for registration, the person must obtain from the landowner or lessee written notification to the department that the person has been authorized to place bees on the location specified (ARSD 12:41:03:01). Commercial apiaries must sit three or more miles from the nearest commercial apiary, with the hobbyist, landowner-beekeeper, and temporary-pollination-permit exceptions DANR lists (DANR; SDCL § 38-18-3.1).
Origin history requiredNot published / not yet checked
Who applies / who signsAny person owning, leasing, or possessing bees shall file an application registering the bees and each apiary with the secretary (SDCL § 38-18-3). The registration fee covers all routine inspections and sampling (DANR Apiary Inspection Program page).
Entry permit (compliance-agreement · issued by the destination side)
Fee$50 (per-agreement) — 'A beekeeper who wishes to enter into a compliance agreement to facilitate interstate movement of his bees, must submit a completed application form and a fee of $50.' (DANR Apiary Inspection Program page)
Validity windowNot published / not yet checked
Notice deadlineNot published / not yet checked
Lead timeNot published / not yet checked
What the certificate must stateNot published / not yet checked
Origin history requiredNot published / not yet checked
Who applies / who signsThe beekeeper submits a completed application form and the $50 fee to enter into the compliance agreement with the department (DANR Apiary Inspection Program page). Bees or used bee equipment included in a compliance agreement are excepted from the thirty-day entrance-permit application duty in SDCL § 38-18-4.
Entry permit (temporary-pollination-permit · issued by the destination side)
FeeNot published / not yet checked
Validity windowThe length of a temporary pollination permit may not exceed 40 days. The number of temporary pollination permits issued to a beekeeper may not exceed 5 percent of the number of permanent locations approved for that beekeeper, with the small-operation exceptions stated in the rule (ARSD 12:41:03:08).
Notice deadlineNot published / not yet checked
Lead timeNot published / not yet checked
What the certificate must stateThe secretary shall inspect all apiaries qualifying for a temporary permit; the detection of any regulated pest is sufficient cause for revoking a temporary permit (ARSD 12:41:03:03).
Origin history requiredNot published / not yet checked
Who applies / who signsTemporary pollination permits, available from the Department of Agriculture, are exempt from the three-mile commercial-apiary spacing limit (DANR Apiary Inspection Program page).
Moving bees — the rules around the instruments
Passing throughNot published / not yet checked
Border and destination inspectionNo border-station inspection is published. The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources or his representative has authority to inspect bee colonies to determine the presence of any bee disease or regulated pest; if unacceptable levels of disease or pest are found, the beekeeper is ordered to eliminate the problem, and a beekeeper who fails to do so becomes liable for all cost incurred in abating the disease or pest (DANR Apiary Inspection Program page). Under ARSD 12:41:03:03 the secretary shall inspect all apiaries qualifying for a temporary permit.
County layerNot published / not yet checked
Recognition of other states' certificatesSouth Dakota's published alternative to a fresh entrance-permit application is a compliance agreement: bees or used bee equipment included in a compliance agreement are excepted from the 30-day entrance-permit application duty in SDCL § 38-18-4, and a beekeeper who wishes to enter into a compliance agreement to facilitate interstate movement of his bees submits a completed application form and a fee of $50 (DANR Apiary Inspection Program page). No rule is published in the sources fetched under which South Dakota accepts another state's certificate on equal-standards terms; the entry rule is an origin certificate of health filed with the secretary (SDCL § 38-18-4).
Consequences, as publishedThe failure to apply for an entrance permit is a Class 2 misdemeanor, and any person failing to apply for an entrance permit is also subject to a civil penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars for each day he remains in violation (SDCL § 38-18-4). Failing to register an apiary is likewise a Class 2 misdemeanor plus a civil penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars for each location failed to register, and the landowner authorization for a location not registered in time is invalid (SDCL § 38-18-3). Bee location permits may be revoked if the bees on that location were brought into the state without an entrance permit, if the apiary is not identified, or if the landowner or lessee authorization is invalid (ARSD 12:41:03:10).
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