Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1894-05-04
CHAPTER 2i3.
3. L. SMITH.
Chief Clerk of the House OF Delegates


Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates
CHAPTER 213.
AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE
OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SUR
gerry IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND.
SECTION i. BE ID enacted by the General
I assembly of Maryland That o commission is
hereby established to be known under the
name and style of "The State Veterinary
| Medical Board, to consist of five commls-
sionerS who shall be members in good stand.
ing of some School OF Veterinary Medicine,
who shall be appointed by the Governor every
four years, and who shall hold their office until
\ their successors are duly appointed and
| qualified with power In and to said Board to
| adopt Bylaws and Regulations, such as they
| may deem advisable to carry into effect tho
| provisions of this Act, provided the said By
Laws shall not conflict with the Constitution
| or laws of this State or of the United States.
SECTION 2. 1t shall be unlawful for any
| person or persons TO practice veterinary med.
ieine and surgery in the State OF Maryland
| without having previously obtained a
diploma from college duly authorized to
grant such students of Veterinary Medicine
! and Surgery or to those who have passed
| satisfactory examinations before the State
I Veterinary Medical Board, or as herein pro-
vided for. -,
Medical Board shall hold their meetings at
such times and places as they may deem best,
| which times and places shall be set out fully
and regularly III their bylaws.
SECTION 4. The said State Veterinary Medical
Board shall examine all diplomas as to their
genuinen esS, and each applicant not holding
diploma shall submit q theoretical and
practical examination before the State Veter-
mary Medical Board, said examination to be
written, oral, or both. which examination, II
passed to the satisfaction OF the said Board,
n tI1 60.
mary Medicine and Surgery subject to pro-
visions and regulations OF this Act and regu-
lations Of the said Boa-d.
SECTION 5. ALI examinations of persons
not graduates shall be made directly by the
State Veterinary Medical Board. and the GER
tiilcates given by the said Board shall
authorize the possessors to practice Veterinary
Medicine and Surgery in the State of Mary
Ind. All examinations of un-graduatsd
practitioners must take place before the
tlirty-first day of December, eighteen hun
dred and ninety-four. After that date no
certificate shall be granted except to persons
presenting diplomas from legally chartered
colleges.
SECTION g. Any person shall be regarded
as practicing Veterinary Medicine and Sur
gerry, within the meaning of this Act, who
shall have received license as mentioned in
Section 4. But nothing in Siis Act shall be
construed to prohibit members of the med
zeal profession IRON prescribing for domestic
animals In case of emergency and collecting
fee therefor: nor to prohibit gratuitous
services i'll an emergency. nor to prevent any
larson from pra'tieing Veterinary Medicine
aud S1rseryon any animal belonging to him
self or herself. Aud this Act shall not apply
to Commissioned Veterinary Surgeons In the
Unte1 States Army.
SECTION T. Ind be il enacted. That it shall
be the duty OF such Board to keep a register
of all practitioners qualified under this Act
praeticing Veterinary Medicine and Surgery
or any branches thereof in this State, and to
cause the same to be published at least once
year in two newspapers published in the
City Of Baltimore.
SEcrIoS 8. AMI be IL enacted That the said
Board shall within six months from the date
hereof, prepare said register, in which tho
names OF ali graduate practitioners in tho
State at the time and in actual practice shall
on application TO the said Board be inserted
without examination and shall also on APP
plication insert tic names of such persons
who are practitioners in actual practice with
out q diploma or certificate or qualification
from recognized school, who have been in
Practice for five years and upwards, prior to
the passing OF this Act upon proof to the said
Board that they have been so practicing.
That all persons praeticing at this time and
not having been so practicing for five years
antccedent 10 this Act shall undergo an ex-
animation before the said Board, and il found
by said Board competent to practice. the
entitled to registration.
SECTION 9, aud be IL enacted. That the said
Board shall have power to reject any appli-
cant for registration whose examination
papers or diplomas are not satisfactory.
SECTION 10. And be IL enacted, That on and
after six months from the date of the approval
OF this Act, no person shall be permitted to
practice Veterinary Medicine or Surgery or
any branch thereof, in the State Of Maryland
who does not possess diploma issued from
a College or School of Veterinary Medicine
duly incorporated and legally licensed to issue
diplomas, and if said diplomas shall be issued
after the first day OF January 1895, it shall be
received only from a College or School OF
Veterinary Medicine which shall require a
three years course of study before issuing
said diploma, and shall have passed such ex-
animation OF test as may be from time to
Tim, instituted as q test of qualification by
such Board, and persons producing such GER
uticates or diplomas who pass such test ex-
animation shall on payment of such fees as
hereinafter are provided for, be registered as
Veterinary practitioners.
SECTION IL. and be IL enacted, That no
monies shall be paid out of the State Treas
ury for the use or purposes of this Act.
SECTION IL. And be IL enacted. That any
person not registered who shall practice
Veterinary Medicine and Surgery or any
branch thereof within the State OF Maryland,
shall be deemed guilty OF q misdemeanor and
shall be fined in the sum of not less than One
Hundred not more than Five Hundred dollars
for each offense. or Imprisonment in the
House of Correction. for any term not less
than three months. not more than twelve
months. for each and every offease
SECTION -. And tie IL enacted. That the
said Board shall be the proseeutorin all cases
under this Act and that such fine and i'm
prisonment may be imposed By any Justice
of the Peace OF the City Of Baltimore, or any
county where such offense may be COM
mitted.
SECTION IL And be IL enacted, That
moiety of the fine imposed under this Act
shall be paid TO the informer, and the other
moiety shall be paid into the county treasury
wherein the offense shall be committed.
SECTION Is A. dnd be IL further enacted
That in any part of any election district OF
any county in the State where it may not in the
judgment of the owner of the animal be advis-
able to secure the services of a duly author
zed veterinary surgeon then the person or per-
sons desiring; TO obtain advice MS TO the physical
condition OF any animal or animals belong
Ing to him or her may procure the services OF
any person TINT he or she may desire, to give
such advice or to perform any services for the
relief of his or her animal or animals that
may be necessary.
SECTION 16. dai be IL enacted That this
Act shall take effect from the date of its
passage
Approved April 6, 1894
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES IL PRESTON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is c