Texas Administrative Code › Title 31 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION › Part 2 - TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT › Chapter 65 - WILDLIFE › Subchapter B - DISEASE DETECTION AND RESPONSE › Division 2 - CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE - COMPREHENSIVE RULES › Section 65.91 - General Provisions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) To
					 the extent that any provision of this division conflicts with any provision of
					 this chapter other than Division 1 of this subchapter, this division
					 prevails.
(b) Except as provided in
					 this division, no live breeder deer or deer trapped under a Triple T permit,
					 TTP permit or DMP may be transferred anywhere for any purpose.
(c) Except as provided in this division or as
					 expressly authorized and in accordance with the provisions of a herd plan, no
					 person shall transfer deer to or from any facility for which a CWD test result
					 of "suspect" or "positive" has been obtained from an accredited testing
					 laboratory, irrespective of how the sample was obtained or who collected the
					 sample. The provisions of this subsection take effect immediately upon the
					 notification of a CWD "suspect" test result, and continue in effect until the
					 department expressly authorizes the resumption of permitted activities at that
					 facility.
(d) Notwithstanding any
					 provision of this division, no person may cause or allow breeder deer to be
					 moved from a facility for any purpose if such movement is prohibited by a herd
					 plan associated with a TAHC hold order or TAHC quarantine.
(e) No person may transfer deer to or from a
					 facility that has been designated NMQ by the department unless specifically
					 authorized by the department for the holder of a scientific research permit
					 when the proposed research is determined to be of use in advancing the etiology
					 of CWD in susceptible species.
(f)
					 Immediately upon the notification that a facility has received a CWD "suspect"
					 test result (a CWD suspect facility), all facilities that have been in
					 possession of a deer that was held in the CWD suspect facility within the
					 previous five years shall be designated NMQ by the department until it is
					 determined that the facility is not epidemiologically linked to the CWD suspect
					 deer, or it is determined upon further testing that the "suspect" deer is not a
					 confirmed positive.
(g) Unless
					 expressly provided otherwise in this division, all applications, reports, and
					 notifications required by this division shall be submitted electronically via
					 TWIMS or by another method expressly authorized by the department.
(h) In the event that technical or other
					 circumstances prevent the development or implementation of automated methods
					 for collecting and submitting the data required by this division via TWIMS, the
					 department may prescribe alternative methods for collecting and submitting the
					 data required by this division.
(i)
					 Except as provided in this division, no person shall introduce into, remove
					 deer from or allow or authorize deer to be introduced into or removed from any
					 facility unless a georeferenced map (a map image incorporating a system of
					 geographic ground coordinates, such as latitude/longitude or Universal
					 Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates) showing the exact boundaries of the
					 facility has been submitted to the department prior to any such introduction or
					 removal.