G.S.90-187.10. Necessity for license;
certain practices exempted
No person shall engage
in the practice of veterinary medicine or own all or part interest in a
veterinary medical practice in this State or attempt to do so without having
first applied for and obtained a license for such purpose from the North
Carolina Veterinary Medical Board, or without having first obtained from said
Board a certificate of renewal of license for the calendar year in which such
person proposes to practice and until he shall have been first licensed and
registered for such practice in the manner provided in this Article and the
rules and regulations of the said Board.
Nothing in this
Article shall be construed to prohibit:
(1)
Any person or his employee from administering to animals, the title to which is
vested in himself, except when said title is so vested for the purpose of
circumventing the provisions of this Article;
(2)
Any person who is a regular student or instructor in a legally chartered
college from the performance of those duties and actions assigned as his
responsibility in teaching or research;
(3)
Any veterinarian not licensed by the Board who is a member of the armed forces
of the United States or who is an employee of the United States Department of
Agriculture, the United States Public Health Service or other federal agency,
or the State of North Carolina, or political subdivision thereof, from
performing official duties while so commissioned or employed;
(4)
Any person from such practices as permitted under the provisions of G.S.
90-185, House Bill 659, Chapter 17, Public Laws 1937, or House Bill 358,
Chapter 5, Private Laws 1941;
(5)
Any person from dehorning or castrating male food animals
(6)
Any person from providing for or assisting in the practice of artificial
insemination;
(7)
Any physician licensed to practice medicine in this State, or his assistant,
while engaged in medical research;
(8)
Any certified rabies vaccinator appointed, certified and acting with the
provisions of G.S. 130A-186;
(9)
Any veterinarian licensed to practice in another state from examining livestock
or acting as a consultant in North Carolina, provided he is directly supervised
by a veterinarian licensed by the Board who must, at or prior to the first
instance of consulting, notify the Board, in writing, that he is supervising
the consulting veterinarian, give the Board the name, address, and licensure
status of the consulting veterinarian, and also verify to the Board that the
supervising veterinarian assumes responsibility for the professional acts of
the consulting veterinarian; and provided further, that the consultation by the
veterinarian in North Carolina does not exceed 10 days or parts thereof per
year, and further that all infectious or contagious diseases diagnosed are
reported to the State Veterinarian within 48 hours; or
(10)
Any person employed by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture as a
livestock inspector or by the U. S. Department of Agriculture as an animal
health technician from performing regular duties assigned to him or her during
the course and scope of that person's employment.
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