Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 12 - Taxation › 574-A - The Operation of Thoroughbred Racing except as noted › Section 12-574-A31 - Veterinarians

Current through July 10, 2024
(a)
License
. All veterinarians
			 referred to in this section shall be licensed to practice in the state of
			 Connecticut by the state board of veterinary registration and examination, and
			 shall he licensed by the commission.
(b)
Commission veterinarian
. The
			 commission shall appoint at least one veterinarian who shall be designated
			 commission veterinarian and who shall carry out such duties as may be imposed
			 upon him by the commission. The commission veterinarian and his assistants
			 shall be responsible for all testing of horses. They shall make reports to the
			 commission at such time and in such manner as the commission may
			 prescribe.
(c)
Association
			 veterinarian
. Each association shall employ a veterinarian to carry out
			 the duties hereafter enumerated in this section. The association veterinarians
			 shall be employed and paid by the association at whose track the services are
			 rendered.
(d)
Treating
			 veterinarian
.
(1) Only veterinarians
			 who have obtained a license from the commission to practice veterinary medicine
			 at an association plant may treat horses at such plant. No veterinarian will
			 receive such a license unless approved by the state veterinarian of the
			 Connecticut department of agriculture.
(2) No veterinarian licensed to practice on
			 the grounds of any association shall furnish sell or loan any hypodermic
			 syringe, hypodermic needle or other device which could be used for injection or
			 other infusion into a horse or a narcotic stimulant, or narcotic to any person
			 within the grounds of a racing association where race horses are lodged or kept
			 without first securing written permission from the stewards. Only one-time
			 disposable syringes and infusion tubes are authorized for use in the treatment
			 of race horses on the grounds of the association.
(3) The association and commission
			 veterinarians shall not prescribe or treat or otherwise administer medication
			 of any form to horses stabled on the association grounds except in eases deemed
			 by the association officials to be emergencies.
(4) No owner or trainer shall employ any
			 veterinarian who has not been duly licensed in accordance with these rules and
			 regulations. The association shall warn off all unlicensed veterinarians. The
			 veterinarians shall make daily reports to the commission veterinarian and to
			 the stewards of all horses under treatment by them and the medication given.
			 Any violation of this rule shall be immediately reported to the commission and
			 the stewards.
(5) Every
			 veterinarian who shall prescribe or use any medication or treatment which
			 contains a drug or drugs, which he has reason to believe are of such character
			 as could affect the racing condition of a horse in a race, shall at the time of
			 such prescribing or use deliver to the steward of the commission and the
			 trainer of the horse under treatment a written statement setting forth the name
			 of the horse and of the trainer and the fact that such medication or treatment,
			 as the case may be, contains a drug, stimulant or narcotic which, in the
			 opinion of the veterinarian is of such a character as could affect the racing
			 condition of the horse in a race.