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Miss. Code Ann. § 73-39-79

Program of care, counseling or treatment for impaired veterinarians

Known as the Mississippi Veterinary Practice Act

The act spans §§ 73–73 (26 sections).

Laws, 2005, ch. 421, § 15; reenacted without change, Laws, 2008, ch. 447, § 15, eff from and after passage (approved Apr. 8, 2008.

(1) The board shall establish a program of care, counseling or treatment for impaired veterinarians.

(2) The program of care, counseling or treatment shall include a written schedule of organized treatment, care, counseling, activities or education satisfactory to the board designed for the purposes of restoring an impaired person to a condition whereby the impaired person can practice veterinary medicine with reasonable skill and safety of a sufficient degree to deliver competent patient care.

(3) All persons authorized to practice by the board shall report in good faith any veterinarian they reasonably believe to be impaired as defined in Section 73-39-53.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.