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known confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease reported to the
commissioner from any region, state or country.__The commissioner
shall make known the availability of diagnostic tests and
vaccination.

 
3. Prevention of chronic wasting disease. The commissioner
shall monitor reports of infection by chronic wasting disease and
progress in developing diagnostic tests and vaccinations for the
disease. The commissioner shall develop a program to prevent, so
far as possible, the introduction of chronic wasting disease in
the State.

 
4.__Maine chronic wasting disease surveillance program; rules.__
The commissioner shall develop a chronic wasting disease
surveillance program.__The commissioner, in consultation with the
Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, shall adopt rules
to establish the requirements of the program.__Rules adopted
pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as
defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

 
Sec. 19. 7 MRSA §3907, sub-§18-A, as amended by PL 1997, c. 456, §1,
is further amended to read:

 
18-A. Livestock. "Livestock" means cattle, equines, sheep,
goats, swine, and domesticated deer, cervids, ostriches, bison,
members of the genus Lama and domesticated fowl and rabbits.

 
Sec. 20. 17 MRSA §1011, sub-§18-A, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 456, §11,
is amended to read:

 
18-A. Livestock. "Livestock" means cattle, equines, sheep,
goats, swine, and domesticated deer, cervids, ostriches, bison,
members of the genus Lama and domesticated fowl and rabbits.

 
Sec. 21. 22 MRSA §2511, sub-§13, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 771, §1, is
amended to read:

 
13. Domesticated deer. "Domesticated deer" means fallow
deer, family Cervidae, subfamily Cervinae, genus Dama; red deer,
family Cervidae, subfamily Cervinae, genus Cervus, species
Elaphus; and any other species specified under Title 7, section
1331, subsection 1-A 1333, subsection 1 kept as domestic animals
for the purpose of either breeding stock or for sale as food.

 
Sec. 22. 22 MRSA §2823-B, sub-§6, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 308, §2,
is amended to read:

 
6. Lawful possession of hypodermic apparatuses by livestock
owners. A person who owns livestock is authorized to possess and
have control of hypodermic apparatuses for the purpose of


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