Definitions

The terms used throughout this title have the same meaning as in North Dakota Century Code chapter 36-01. Additionally: 1. "Farmed elk" mean mammals of the elk genus and species cervus candensis, formerly a subspecies of cervus elaphus. Red deer (cervus elaphus) are not farmed elk. 2. "Herd" means two or more elk, or a herd of elk commingled with other hoof stock maintained on common ground, or two or more herds of elk and other hoof stock under common ownership or supervision which are geographically separated, but can have an interchange or movement without regard to health status. 3. "Trace herd" means a herd in which an animal affected by chronic wasting disease has resided up to sixty months before its death, or any herd that has received animals from an affected herd within sixty months prior to the death of the affected animal.