Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 112 - KANSAS RACING AND GAMING COMMISSION › Article 10 - ANIMAL HEALTH › Section 112-10-2 - Assistant animal health officers

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Each assistant
			 animal health officer employed by the commission shall be licensed to practice
			 veterinary medicine in the state of Kansas.
(b) No assistant animal health officer shall
			 treat or prescribe medication for any horse located at a racetrack facility or
			 registered to race at a racetrack facility except in an emergency. Each
			 assistant animal health officer who treats or prescribes medication for a horse
			 in an emergency shall immediately file a complete report of the circumstances
			 and veterinary procedure with the stewards and the animal health officer.
(c) No owner or trainer shall
			 employ or pay any compensation to an assistant animal health officer, directly
			 or indirectly, while the assistant animal health officer is employed by the
			 commission.
(d) The duties of each
			 assistant animal health officer shall consist of the following:
(1) Supervising practicing veterinarians at
			 the racetrack facility and recommending to the stewards or the commission the
			 discipline to be imposed upon each practicing veterinarian who violates
			 commission regulations;
(2)
			 determining whether each horse is sound to race and, if the horse is unsound,
			 placing any horse on the veterinarian's list and removing any horse from the
			 veterinarian's list when, at the assistant animal health officer's discretion,
			 the placement or removal is proper. Each horse shall remain on the
			 veterinarian's list a minimum of four days. No horse shall be allowed to race
			 before its name is removed from the veterinarian's list;
(3) establishing a procedure for and
			 supervising the collection of urine, blood, or other specimens from horses, as
			 designated by the assistant animal health officer, the stewards, or commission
			 and maintain identification records for the specimens as required by the
			 commission;
(4) supervising the
			 procedure for witnessing, sealing, and delivering each test specimen to the
			 official test laboratory;
(5)
			 reporting immediately to the animal health officer the name and tattoo number
			 of each horse at a racetrack facility that dies or is humanely destroyed and
			 the reason for the death;
(6)
			 being at the racing secretary's or stewards' office to report to the racing
			 secretary or stewards on the assistant animal health officer's inspection of
			 horses and each horse's condition before scratch time on each race day at the
			 time designated by the stewards;
(7) with the permission of the stewards,
			 scratching a horse at any time before the horse enters the starting gate;
(8) directing a horse to be
			 isolated or declaring the horse ineligible to race if it has symptoms of
			 chronic unsoundness. If a horse is declared ineligible to race, the assistant
			 animal health officer shall report this fact to the stewards, who shall write a
			 formal ruling against the horse and write the reason for the ruling on the
			 horse's registration papers;
(9)
			 accompanying and observing each field of horses from the time the horses enter
			 the paddock to be saddled for the race until they are dispatched from the
			 starting gate;
(10) inspecting
			 horses in the paddock after the finish of each race;
(11) in an emergency, treating or humanely
			 destroying any horse that is so seriously injured that the assistant animal
			 health officer believes the action is necessary. Each horse owner, if present,
			 and trainer at the racetrack facility shall consent to the assistant animal
			 health officer's humane destruction of a seriously injured horse; and
(12) performing other duties
			 prescribed by the animal health officer, the stewards or the commission.