29.063 Management of chronic wasting disease.
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29.063 Management of chronic wasting disease.
(1)The department may manage, and provide funding to conduct testing for, chronic wasting disease in cervids.
(2)If the department designates an area as a chronic wasting disease eradication zone, the department shall provide notice and information to the public that is adequate to inform the public prior to the commencement of hunting that hunting of cervids to control the spread of the disease will occur in that zone.
(3)To control chronic wasting disease, the department may promulgate rules regulating the transportation, possession, control, storage, or disposal of the carcass of a cervid in this state, except that the rules may not apply to any of the following:
(a)Meat that is cut and wrapped, either commercially or privately.
(b)Quarters or other portions of meat to which no part of the spinal column or head is attached.
(c)Meat that has been deboned.
(d)Hides with no heads attached.
(e)Finished taxidermy heads.
(f)Antlers with no meat or tissue attached.
(g)Skulls with antlers attached and with no meat or tissue attached.
(h)Upper canine teeth.
(4)The department may promulgate rules prohibiting the transportation of the carcass of a cervid from another state or country in which chronic wasting disease has been confirmed in a cervid, except that the rules may not apply to any of the following:
(a)Meat that is cut and wrapped, either commercially or privately.
(b)Quarters or other portions of meat to which no part of the spinal column or head is attached.