A.__The department shall develop and implement this program in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources.__In developing the program, the department shall investigate, in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, the costs and benefits of establishing a toll-free telephone line for facilitating the donation of meat.

B.__The department may adopt rules to implement the program.__ If rules are determined necessary, the department shall develop those rules in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources.__Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.__Rules adopted under this subsection may include, but are not limited to:

(1)__Procedures for donating wild game meat;

(2)__Provisions for a quality control program;

(3)__Procedures for distributing donated wild game meat through the food assistance programs administered by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources;

(4)__Methods for supporting private sporting groups throughout the State with program education and promotion efforts; and

(5)__Limiting the distribution of wild game meat to certain types of facilities.

C.__A person who donates lawfully obtained wild game meat that is apparently fit for human consumption to the program and a charitable, nonprofit or other organization authorized by the department to receive and distribute meat donated under the program are immune from civil liability arising from injury or death due to the condition of the donated food, unless the injury or death is a direct result of the intentional misconduct of the donor or the organization.