2010 New York Code
EDN - Education
Title 8 - THE PROFESSIONS
Article 135 - (6700 - 6714) VETERINARY MEDICINE AND ANIMAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
6713 - Special provisions.

§ 6713. Special  provisions.    1.  An  unlicensed  person may provide
  supportive services to a veterinarian,  including  but  not  limited  to
  administering   oral   or  topical  medications,  incidental  to  and/or
  concurrent with such veterinarian personally  performing  a  service  or
  procedure,  provided such supportive services do not require a knowledge
  of veterinary science.
    2. A certified emergency medical technician may  perform  endotracheal
  intubation  on  an  animal under the immediate personal supervision of a
  licensed veterinarian or a licensed veterinary technician  acting  under
  the  direct  supervision  of  a  veterinarian,  in  lieu of the licensed
  veterinarian personally performing the procedure, provided:
    a. the emergency  medical  technician  is  enrolled  in  a  course  in
  advanced  emergency  medical technology approved under article thirty of
  the  public  health  law  in  which  pediatric  endotracheal  intubation
  training is included;
    b.  the  procedure  is  performed  as  part  of pediatric endotracheal
  intubation training in that course, after didactic and manikin  training
  in  human  intubation,  and instruction in animal anatomy and the proper
  method of animal intubation have been received;
    c. the procedure  is  medically  indicated  as  part  of  treating  or
  operating  for  any  non-emergency  disease, pain, injury, deformity, or
  physical condition of the animal;
    d. the procedure is performed only when the animal is properly sedated
  or anesthetized;
    e. the procedure is performed no more than once per animal by no  more
  than one certified emergency medical technician;
    f. the animal owner, or where such owner is unknown, the person having
  lawful  charge  or  custody  of  the  animal, consents in writing to the
  performance of the procedure by a person meeting the  qualifications  of
  this subdivision; and
    g.  records  kept by the commissioner of health on courses in advanced
  emergency  medical  technology  meeting   the   requirements   of   this
  subdivision  indicate whether pediatric endotracheal intubation training
  conducted in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision was part
  of a course in advanced emergency medical technology; provided, however,
  that this subdivision shall not be  construed  to  require  endotracheal
  intubation  on  animals,  and  the  commissioner  of  health  shall have
  discretion to determine  whether  endotracheal  intubation  training  on
  animals  shall  be  required  for  accreditation  of such courses or for
  certification of advanced emergency medical technicians.