If a serial number brand is used on wooden equipment, it shall be burned into the wood in numbers which are at least one-half inch in height. Hive bodies shall be branded on the upper left-hand corner. Frames shall be branded or stenciled on top bars. Other wooden equipment may be branded in any manner desired.
Cal. Food & Agric. Code § 29051
Registration and Identification of Apiaries
Known as the Apiary Protection Act
The act spans §§ 29000–29322 (136 sections).
Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1404, Sec. 2.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.