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No person shall keep or maintain, or suffer or permit to be kept or maintained, upon premises owned or controlled by him or it in the city, a hive of bees. This section shall not apply to the keeping of bees within an educational institution for study or observation, or within a physician's office or laboratory for medical research, treatment or other scientific purposes, provided they are not permitted to fly at large.
A violation of this section is an infraction, and upon a conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars.
(Ord. 255 §1(part), 1978).