Sec. Q-1. 22 MRSA §1313, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 468, §23, is amended to read:
3. Costs associated with transportation, quarantine, testing and euthanasia. The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife shall provide for or pay all necessary costs for transportation, quarantine, and euthanasia and testing of an undomesticated animal suspected of having rabies. The owner of a domesticated animal suspected of having rabies shall pay all costs for transportation, quarantine, euthanasia and testing of the animal. If a domesticated animal is a stray or the owner is unknown, the municipality in which the animal was apprehended is responsible for transportation, quarantine, euthanasia and testing costs. Cost of testing animals judged by the department to have created a public health risk of rabies must be borne by the department, through its General Fund appropriations.
Sec. Q-2. Transfer. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Controller may transfer $2,013,000 in fiscal year 2000-01 in the Medicaid Program from Targeted Case Management - Child Welfare recoveries in the Federal Expenditures Fund account in the Department of Human Services to General Fund undedicated revenue no later than June 30, 2001.
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