North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 87 - Veterinary Medical Examiners, Board of › Article 87-05 - Veterinarian Disciplinary Proceedings › Chapter 87-05-02 - Unprofessional Conduct › Section 87-05-02-01 - Unprofessional conduct

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
Unprofessional conduct manifestly disqualifying a licensee
				  from practicing veterinary medicine includes:
1. Failing to meet the minimum standards of
				practice.
2. Engaging in conduct
				likely to deceive, defraud, or harm the public or demonstrating a willful or
				careless disregard for the health, welfare, or safety of a patient, in which
				case, proof of actual injury need not be established.
3. Claiming to have performed or charging for
				an act or treatment that was, in fact, not performed or given.
4. Promoting, aiding, abetting, or permitting
				the practice of veterinary medicine by an unlicensed person.
5. Prescribing or dispensing, delivering, or
				ordering delivered a controlled substance without first having established a
				veterinarian-client-patient relationship by having personally examined the
				individual animal, herd, or a representative segment or a consignment lot and
				determining that treatment with the controlled substance is therapeutically
				indicated. Use of euthanizing drugs in recognized animal shelters or government
				animal control facilities is exempt from this requirement.
6. Willful continuation of prescribing a
				controlled substance to a patient when reasonably on notice that the substance
				negligently or willfully has been diverted or is being diverted by the client
				to human use.
7. Performing surgery
				to conceal genetic or congenital defects, in any species, with the knowledge
				that the surgery has been requested to deceive a third party.
8. Promoting, selling, prescribing, or using
				a product for which the ingredient formula is unknown to the
				veterinarian.
9. Failing to report
				to law enforcement or humane officers inhumane treatment to animals, including
				staged animal fights or training events for fights, the veterinarian reasonably
				believed occurred.
10. Fraudulently
				issuing or using a certificate of veterinary inspection, test chart,
				vaccination report, or other official form used in the practice of veterinary
				medicine to prevent the dissemination of animal disease, transportation of
				diseased animals, or the sale of inedible products of animal origin for human
				consumption.
11. Willfully
				harassing, abusing, or intimidating a client or animal owner. Taking legal
				action to collect for services rendered cannot be considered
				harassment.
12. Engaging in conduct
				which willingly and knowingly leads to the spread of contagious disease from
				one herd or animal to another.
13.
				Advertising, stating, or implying that the veterinarian is a certified or
				recognized specialist in any given field unless the veterinarian is a diplomate
				of a speciality board recognized by the American veterinary medical
				association.
14. Failure to provide
				referral to a specialist when medically indicated and requested by the
				client.
General Authority:
NDCC 43-29-03
Law Implemented:
NDCC
					 43-29-14