Chapter 241
2004 -- H 7445
SUBSTITUTE A AS AMENDED
Enacted 07/01/04
A N A C T
RELATING
TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- VETERINARY PRACTICE
Introduced
By: Representative Charlene Lima
Date
Introduced: January 29, 2004
It
is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION
1. Sections 5-25-6, 5-25-10 and 5-25-12 of the General Laws in Chapter 5-25
entitled
"Veterinary Practice" are hereby amended to read as follows:
5-25-6.
Board and division -- Powers and duties. Board and department -- Powers
and
duties. -- The board is authorized to recommend to the division of
professional regulation
department and director
of health for his or her approval, the adoption, and from time to time, the
revision,
of any rules and regulations not inconsistent with law that are necessary to
enable the
division department
to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter, including, but not
limited
to,
regulations establishing continuing professional education requirements for
veterinarians
licensed
under this chapter. The board shall recommend for licensure only duly
qualified
applicants.
The board shall review applicants at least twice a year. It shall recommend the
tests
taken
by applicants for licensure. The division of professional regulation department
shall adopt
all
policies to be followed in the examination, licensure, and renewal of license
of duly qualified
applicants
and has full authority to accept or reject the recommendations of the board.
The
division
of professional regulation department is responsible for granting
all licenses to practice
veterinary
medicine. The division department shall conduct hearings upon
charges calling for the
discipline
of licensees or revocation of licenses. The administrator of the division of
professional
regulation department
has the power to issue subpoena and compel the attendance of witnesses
and
administer oaths to persons giving testimony at hearings. The division department
shall cause
the
prosecution of all persons violating this chapter. The division department
shall keep a record
of
all its proceedings. The division department may delegate to any
other persons that are
necessary
to carry on the work of the division department.
5-25-10.
Qualifications for licensure. -- Any applicant for licensure shall
submit to the
division department
written evidence on forms furnished by the division of professional
regulation department
verified by oath that the applicant meets all of the following requirements:
(1) Be a graduate of a school or college of veterinary medicine recognized and
accredited
by the American Veterinary Medical Association and by the division department
or
certification
by the Educational Council for Foreign Veterinary Graduates;
(2) Pay an application fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) at the time of
submitting the
application,
which, in no case is returned to the applicant;
(3)
Be of good moral character, evidenced in the manner prescribed by the division
department; and
(4)
Comply with any other qualifications that the division department
prescribes by
regulation.;
and
(5)
Comply with the continuing education requirements adopted by the department.
5-25-12.
Expiration and renewal of licenses. -- (a) The certificate of every
person
licensed
as a veterinarian under the provisions of this chapter expires on the first day
of May of
each
even numbered year. On or before the first day of March of each two (2) year
period, the
administrator
of the division of professional regulation department shall mail
an application for
renewal
of license to every person to whom a license has been issued or renewed during
the
current
licensure period. Every person so licensed who desires to renew his or her license
shall
file
with the division of professional regulation department a renewal
application duly executed
together
with a renewal fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) on or before the
thirty-first day of
March
of each even year.
(b) Upon receipt of an application, and payment of the renewal fee, the
administrator of
professional
regulation
the department shall grant a renewal license effective the second day of
May,
and expiring on the first day of May of the next even numbered year.
(c) Any person who allows his or her license to lapse by failing to renew it on
or before
the
thirty-first day of March of the next even year, as provided above, may be
reinstated by the
administrator
of professional regulation the department on payment of the
current renewal fee
plus
an additional fee of sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ($62.50).
(d) Any person using the title "veterinarian" during the time that
his or her license has
lapsed
is subject to the penalties provided for violations of this chapter.
(e)
Every veterinarian licensed to practice veterinary medicine within the state
shall, in
connection
with renewal of licensure, provide satisfactory evidence to the department that
in the
preceding
two-year period the veterinarian has completed a prescribed course of
continuing
professional
education established by an appropriate professional veterinary medicine
association
and
approved by rule or regulation of the department. The department may extend for
only one
six
(6) month period, these education requirements if the department is satisfied
that the applicant
has
suffered hardship which prevented meeting the educational requirement.
SECTION
2. This act shall take effect upon passage and shall apply to all licenses issued
by
the department of health effective May 2, 2007 and thereafter.
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