The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-08
CHAPTER XIV.

Passed February u, 1889.
CHAPTER XIV.
An act to protect the title of veterinary
surgeons and to regulate the practice OF
veterinary medicine and surgery in
New Jersey.
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and Cen
eral Assembly of the State Of New Jersey,
That every person who shall assume. or
use, or cause to be used. anv title per-
tanning to the practice of veterinary
medicine or surgery, or any OF the
branches of veterinary medicine or sur
gerry, shall be a graduate of legally
chartered veterinary college or univer-
sity, having the power or authority to
confer the degree of veterinary surgeon
or analogous title, except as provided for
in section two; and such practitioner
shall be required to register in the book
kept for that purpose, in the office OF the
county clerk Of the county in which he
resides.
2. And be 1t enacted, That any person
who has assumed the title of veterinary
surgeon or analogous title, in this State,
for the five years preceding the passage Of
this act, without being entitled to the der
gree of veterinary surgeon or analogous
title, shall be allowed to continue the use
of the title; but such person shall appear
before the county clerk of the county in
which he resides, and make affidavit of
that fact; he shall then be recorded as an
existing practitioner.
g. And be it enacted, That the county
clerk shall purchase book of suitable
size, to be known as the veterinary
medical register" of the county, and shall
set apart one full page for the registra-
ton of each practitioner; and when any
practitionhr shall die or remove from the
county, the county clerk shall make a
note of the same, and shall perform such
other duties as are required by this act.
4. And be it enacted, That every practi-
toner who shall be admitted to register
shall pay to the county clerk the sum of
one dollar. which sum shall be compensa-
ton in full for registration; the county
clerk shall give receipt for the same,
and such registration shall take place
within six months from the passage of
this act.
5. And be it enacted, That nothing in
this act shall be so construed as to pre-
vent any veterinary surgeon Gf legally
qualified to use the title) from using the
title of veterinary surgeon" or analogous
title, in this State; but if such veterinary
surgeon opens an office or uses the title
for the transaction of business, he shall
be deemed 'sojourner," and shall con-
form to the requirements of this act.
6. And be it enacted, That any person
who may desire to commence the prac-
tice of veterinary surgery or medicine, or
any of its branches, in this State, after
the passage of this act, and who holds a
veterinary diploma, issued, or purporting
to have been issued, by any veterinary
college or university in this State, another
State or foreign country, shall make aft
davit before the county clerk that his
diploma has been regularly issued by o
legally chartered veterinary college or
university, after which such person will
ha al IN o q dod fAr ~,
this act.
T. And be it enacted, That any person
who shall present to a county clerk a
veterinary diploma which has been OBJ
tanned fraudulently, of which is, in whole
or in part, forgery, or shall make aft
davit to any false statement, intended to
be filed or registered, or shall use the title
of veterinary surgeon or analogous title,
without conforming to the requirements
of this act, or shall otherwise vio-
late or neglect to comply with any of the
provisions of this act, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and, on convic-
ton, shall be punished for each and every
offense by a fine of one hundred dollars,
one-half to be paid to the prosecutor, and
the other half to be paid to the county, or
shall be imprisoned in the county jail of
the proper county for term not exceed
ing one year, or both or either, at the dis
cretlon of the court.
g. And be 1t enacted, That no person
shall recover in any court in this State
any sum of money whatever for any vet
Urinary, medical or surgical services, ;un-
less he shall have complied with the pro-
visions of this act. and is one of the per
sons authorized by this act to practice as
O veterinary surgeon or veterinarian
o. And be it enacted That in order to
secure to the veterinary associations and
societies of the State and the State BOARD
of Health a full record of all veterinary
physicians and surgeons in this State it
Shall be the duty of the county clerk of
each county of the State to furnish to ali
incorporated veterinary associations and
societies of the State and to the State
Board of Health list of names of all the
veterinary physicians and surgeons who
have deposited with him copies of their
diplomas, and the name and place of the
institution purporting to confer such
diploma, and each county clerk
shall yearly furnish to the veterinary
associations and societies of the
State and to the State Board Of
Health similar list of those veterin-
airy physicians and surgeons hereafter
depositing diplomas with him. and shall
include in such list, also, the names of
those veterinary practitioners filing AFT
dayitS with him as mentioned in the
foregoing section of this act: and each
county clerk shall keep in suitable
book an index of the names of all veter-
mary physicians and surgeons depositiug
diplomas or filing atfidavits in pursuance
of the foregoing sections of this act.
10. And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect Immediately.
Approved March 4, 1889.