§30-10-2 License or permit required; exceptions.
§30-10-2. License or permit required; exceptions.
No person may, for a fee or other compensation, practice veterinary medicine in this state without a license or a temporary permit issued by the board in accordance with the provisions of this article, which license or permit remains unexpired, unsuspended and unrevoked. This article shall, however, not be construed to prohibit:
(a) Any employee of the federal, state or local government from performing his official duties, as defined by his employing agency;
(b) Any person who is a regular student in a veterinary school from performing research assigned by his instructors, or from working under the direct supervision of a licensed veterinarian during a school vacation period;
(c) Any person from advising with respect to or performing acts which the board has prescribed as accepted livestock management practices;
(d) Any veterinarian regularly licensed in another state from consulting with a licensed veterinarian in this state;
(e) The owner of an animal, the owner's employees, or persons assisting the owner without any fee or compensation, from caring for and treating such animal, except where the ownership of such animal was transferred for the purpose of circumventing the provisions of this article;
(f) Any member of the faculty of a veterinary school from performing his regular functions, or any person from lecturing, or giving instructions or demonstrations, at a veterinary school or in connection with a continuing education course or seminar;
(g) Any person from selling or applying any pesticide, insecticide or herbicide;
(h) Any person from engaging in bona fide scientific research which reasonably requires experimentation involving animals;
(i) Any person from engaging in bona fide scientific research in consultation with a licensed veterinarian in this state;
(j) The treatment or relief of any living animal in the case of an emergency or the disposal of the carcass of a dead animal;
(k) Any person, with reference to domestic animals, from performing care and treatment of such animals, provided that such person other than those not prohibited otherwise in this section shall be allowed to continue after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred seventy-six, only if such person meets the minimum requirements set out by the veterinary licensing board for certification of licensing as veterinarians, veterinary assistants or veterinary technicians;
(l) The practice of veterinary medicine by those certain persons who were licensed to practice under the laws of this state on the effective date of this section or the practice of veterinary medicine by those certain persons who were permitted to practice by the provisions of chapter thirty-three, acts of the Legislature, regular session, one thousand nine hundred fifteen, notwithstanding any of the provisions contained in section six, article ten, chapter thirty of this code to the contrary; or
(m) The veterinary licensing board from certifying and licensing veterinary assistants or technicians to work under the direct supervision of a licensed veterinarian.