CHAPTER 332-B NEW HAMPSHIRE VETERINARY PRACTICE ACT
Section 332-B:1
332-B:1 Definitions. –
When used in this chapter, these words and phrases shall be defined as follows:
I. "Animal" means any animal other than man and includes fowl, birds, fish, and reptiles, wild or domestic, living or dead.
I-a. "AVMA" means the American Veterinary Medical Association.
II. "Veterinary medicine" means and includes veterinary surgery, obstetrics, dentistry, and all other branches or specialties of veterinary medicine.
III. "Practice of veterinary medicine" means:
(a) To diagnose, treat, correct, change, relieve, or prevent animal disease, lameness, deformity, defect, injury, or other physical or mental conditions: including the prescription or administration of any drug, medicine, biologic, apparatus, application, anesthetic, or other therapeutic or diagnostic substance or technique, and the use of any manual or mechanical procedure for testing for pregnancy, or for correcting sterility, or infertility, or to render advice or recommendation with regard to any of the above.
(b) To represent directly or indirectly, publicly or privately, an ability and willingness to do any act described in subparagraph (a).
(c) To use any title, words, abbreviation, or letters in a manner or under circumstances which induce the belief that the person using them is qualified to do any act described in subparagraph (a), except where such person is a veterinarian.
IV. "Veterinarian" means a person who has received a doctor's degree in veterinary medicine from an accredited school of veterinary medicine or other veterinary school approved by the board, or a person from a foreign veterinary school holding an ECFVG certificate or a PAVE certificate.
V. "Licensed veterinarian" means a person who is validly and currently licensed to practice veterinary medicine in this state.
VI. "School of veterinary medicine" means any veterinary college or division of a university or college that offers the degree of doctor of veterinary medicine or its equivalent and that conforms to the standards required for accreditation by the AVMA.
VII. "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, joint venture, cooperative, and corporation, or any other group or combination acting in concert; and whether or not acting as a principal, trustee, fiduciary, receiver, or as any other kind of legal or personal representative, or as the successor in interest, assignee, agent, factor, servant, employee, director, officer, or any other representative of such person.
VIII. "Board" means the board of veterinary medicine established in RSA 332-B:3.
IX. "ECFVG certificate" means a certificate issued by the AVMA educational commission for foreign veterinary graduates indicating that the holder has demonstrated knowledge and skill equivalent to that possessed by a graduate of an accredited or approved college of veterinary medicine.
X. "Animal physical therapist" means a person who is licensed to practice physical therapy in New Hampshire pursuant to RSA 328-A and has obtained a certification to practice animal physical therapy from the board of veterinary medicine.
XI. "Animal physical therapy" means the practice of physical therapy on animals.
XII. "PAVE" means the Program for the Assessment of Veterinary Education Equivalence operated by the American Association of Veterinary State Boards.