Board of examiners appointed--Qualifications of members--Terms of office

The Governor shall appoint a State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners which shall include three veterinarians. Each veterinarian shall be a graduate from a college authorized by law to confer degrees of veterinary medicine with educational standards equal to those approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association, and each veterinarian shall be licensed and registered under this chapter and actively engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine in the state for a period of five years preceding the appointment. Appointments shall be made for the term of three years. No member of this board may serve more than three full terms. The appointment of a person to an unexpired term is not considered a full term.

Source: SL 1961, ch 201, § 1; revised pursuant to SL 1973, ch 2, § 58; SL 2005, ch 199, § 36.