Section 49-7-58.2 - Program of inspecting, monitoring, testing and preventing chronic wasting disease(1) The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks shall develop and implement a program for inspecting, monitoring, testing and preventing chronic wasting disease. The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks shall promulgate rules and regulations to effect the sampling of deer harvested, or dying from, nonhunting related causes, within an enclosure. If chronic wasting disease is diagnosed in white-tailed deer within an enclosure, the department is authorized to use methods authorized by the commission and enter the enclosure to determine a solution for containing the disease within the enclosure. If chronic wasting disease is diagnosed within five (5) miles of the enclosure, the department is authorized to enter the enclosure and utilize the best collection methods available to obtain tissue samples. If chronic wasting disease is detected within an enclosure, the commission shall not declare surrounding or adjoining properties within a five (5) mile radius of the enclosure a CWD Management Zone, until chronic wasting disease is positively detected within such radius on these surrounding or adjoining properties.(2) If a live test for chronic wasting disease is developed, the department is authorized to conduct such tests on white-tailed deer within any enclosure. Laws, 2003, ch. 516, § 8, eff. 4/19/2003.Amended by Laws, 2021, ch. 426, HB 382,§ 4, eff. 4/9/2021.Amended by Laws, 2020, ch. 307, SB 2722,§ 4, eff. 7/1/2020.