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321.443 Veterinary assistants.
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A veterinary assistant may work only under the direct supervision of a veterinarian
except for the routine administration of drugs, vaccines, parasite control agents, and
growth stimulating implants for food animals prescribed by a veterinarian and under
the indirect supervision of a veterinarian where a veterinarian-client-patient
relationship exists.
Duties of a veterinary assistant shall exclude diagnosing, prescribing medication or
treatment, and performance of surgical procedures other than castrating and
dehorning of food animals.
A veterinarian shall utilize the service of a veterinary assistant in accordance with
the terms and provisions of this chapter. Unauthorized utilization of veterinary
assistants shall be considered as aiding and abetting an unlicensed person to practice
veterinary medicine as described in KRS 321.351.
Effective: July 14, 1992
History:
Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 299, sec. 8, effective July 14, 1992.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/14/92). This statute was created in 1992 Ky.
Acts ch. 299, which contains the enrolled text of Senate Bill 250. A committee
substitute for this bill was adopted by the House with a floor amendment, and the
Senate subsequently concurred in this action by the House; this amended substitute
thus became the enrolled version of the bill. In drafting the House Committee
Substitute, the original Section 10 of the bill was deleted in its entirety, but internal
section references within the bill were not renumbered to reflect this deletion.
Therefore, in codifying this statute, the internal section reference within Acts ch. 299,
sec. 8, has been changed pursuant to KRS 7.136(1).
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