169.4 - LICENSE REQUIREMENT AND EXCEPTIONS.
169.4 LICENSE REQUIREMENT AND EXCEPTIONS.
A person may not practice veterinary medicine in the state who is
not a licensed veterinarian or the holder of a valid temporary permit
issued by the board. This chapter shall not be construed to
prohibit:
1. An employee of the federal, state, or local government from
performing official duties.
2. A person who is a veterinary student in an accredited or
approved college of veterinary medicine from performing duties or
actions assigned by instructors, or working under the direct
supervision of a licensed veterinarian. The board shall issue to any
veterinary medicine student who attends an accredited veterinary
medicine college or school and who has been certified as being
competent by an instructor of such college or school to perform
veterinary duties under the direction of an instructor of veterinary
medicine or under the direct supervision of a licensed veterinarian,
a certificate authorizing the veterinary medicine student to perform
such functions.
3. A veterinarian currently licensed in another state from
consulting with a licensed veterinarian in this state.
4. Any manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer from advising with
respect to or selling in the ordinary course of trade or business,
drugs, feeds, including, but not limited to customer-formula feeds as
defined in section 198.3, appliances, and other products used in the
prevention or treatment of animal diseases.
5. The owner of an animal or the owner's bona fide employees from
caring for and treating the animal in the possession of such owner
except where the ownership of the animal was transferred solely for
the purpose of circumventing this chapter.
6. A member of the faculty of an accredited college of veterinary
medicine from performing functions in the classrooms or continuing
education. However, those faculty members who have professional
responsibility to the owner must be licensed. A temporary permit may
be granted for a period not to exceed two years to interns or
residents who are on the staff of the college of veterinary medicine
of Iowa state university of science and technology. Such permit
shall be renewable annually upon the application of the dean of the
college of veterinary medicine.
7. Any person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or
applying any pesticide, insecticide, or herbicide.
8. Any person from engaging in bona fide scientific research
which reasonably requires experimentation involving animals.
9. Any veterinary assistant employed by a licensed veterinarian
from performing duties other than diagnosis, prescription, or surgery
under the direct supervision of such veterinarian which assistant has
been issued a certificate by the board subject to section 169.20.
10. A graduate of a foreign college of veterinary medicine who is
in the process of obtaining an ECFVG certificate for performing
duties or actions under the direction or supervision of a licensed
veterinarian.
11. Any person from advising with respect to or performing
accepted livestock management practices.
12. Any person from engaging in the full-time study of the
improvement of the quality of livestock.
13. Any person from performing post-mortem examinations on swine
or cattle.
14. Any person from collecting or evaluating semen from livestock
or poultry, or artificial insemination of livestock and poultry.
15. Any person from castrating, dehorning or branding
notwithstanding section 169A.14. Section History: Early Form
[S13, § 2538-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2766; C46, 50, 54, 58,
62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 169.3; C79, 81, § 169.4] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 115, § 3