47-817. Practice without
license prohibited; exceptions. No person shall practice veterinary medicine
in this state who is not currently and validly a licensed veterinarian. This
act shall not be construed to prohibit:
(a) An employee of the federal,
state or local government performing such employee's official duties.
(b) A person from gratuitously
giving aid, assistance or relief in veterinary emergency cases if such person
does not represent themselves to be veterinarians or use any title or degree
appertaining to the practice thereof.
(c) A veterinarian regularly licensed
in another state consulting with a licensed veterinarian in this state.
(d) Fisheries biologists actively
employed by the state of Kansas, the United States government, or any person
in the production or management of commercial food or game fish while in
the performance of such persons' official duties.
(e) Any feeder utilizing and mixing
antibiotics or other disease or parasite preventing drugs as a part of such
feeder's feeding operations.
(f) The owner of an animal and
the owner's regular employee caring for and treating the animal belonging
to such owner, except where the ownership of the animal was transferred to
avoid this act.
(g) A member of the faculty of
a school of veterinary medicine performing such member's regular functions
or a person lecturing, or giving instructions or demonstrations at a school
of veterinary medicine or in connection with a continuing education course
for veterinarians.
(h) Any person engaging in bona
fide scientific research which reasonably requires experimentation involving
animals or commercial production of biologics or animal medicines.
(i) A nonstudent employee, independent
contractor or any other associate of the veterinarian or a student in a school
of veterinary medicine who has not completed at least three years of study
and who performs prescribed veterinary procedures under the direct supervision
of a licensed veterinarian or under the indirect supervision of a licensed
veterinarian pursuant to rules and regulations of the board.
(j) A student who has completed
at least three years of study in a school of veterinary medicine and who
performs prescribed veterinary procedures assigned by such student's instructors
or who works under direct or indirect supervision of a licensed veterinarian.
History: L. 1969, ch. 261, §
4; L. 1980, ch. 155, § 2; L. 1993, ch. 129, § 4; L. 1999, ch. 25,
§ 2; July 1.