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