Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-10-32 - Assistant animal health officer, greyhound

(a) Each assistant animal health officer employed by the commission shall be licensed to practice veterinary medicine in the state of Kansas.

(b) No assistant animal health officer shall treat or prescribe medication for any greyhound located at a racetrack facility or registered to race at a racetrack facility except in an emergency. Each assistant animal health officer who treats or prescribes medication for a greyhound in an emergency shall promptly file a complete report of the circumstances and veterinary procedure with the racing judges and the animal health officer.

(c) No kennel owner or trainer shall employ or pay any compensation to an assistant animal health officer, directly or indirectly, while the assistant animal health officer is functioning in that capacity at the racetrack as an employee of the commission.

(d) An assistant animal health officer shall meet the following requirements:

(1) Supervise practicing veterinarians at the racetrack facility and recommend to the racing judges or the commission the discipline to be imposed upon each practicing veterinarian who violates commission regulations;

(2) place any greyhound on the veterinarian's list where it shall remain a minimum of three calendar days when in an assistant animal health officer's discretion the placement is proper;

(3) remove any greyhound from the veterinarian's list when in an assistant animal health officer's discretion the removal is proper. No greyhound shall be entered in a race before its name is removed from the veterinarian's list unless otherwise approved by the animal health officer or assistant animal health officer;

(4) establish a procedure for, supervise the collection of and maintain identification records for urine, blood or other specimens from greyhounds, as designated by an assistant animal health officer, the racing judges or the commission;

(5) supervise the procedure for witnessing, sealing, and delivering each test specimen to the official test laboratory;

(6) report immediately to the animal health officer the name, tattoo number, and reason for death of each greyhound that dies or is euthanized at a racetrack facility;

(7) with the permission of the racing judge, scratch each greyhound determined not sound to race at any time before the greyhound enters the starting box;

(8) treat or euthanize any greyhound that is so seriously injured that an assistant animal health officer believes the action is necessary. Each kennel owner or trainer at a racetrack facility shall execute and deliver a written waiver and consent to an assistant animal health officer before the greyhound is treated or euthanized; and

(9) perform other duties prescribed by the animal health officer, the racing judges or the commission.

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Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-10-32

Authorized by K.S.A. 74-8804; implementing K.S.A. 74-8806, 74-8810, 74-8825; effective, T-112-8-22-89, Aug. 22, 1989; effective Oct. 9, 1989; amended, T-112-8-13-92, Aug. 13, 1992; amended, T-112-12-10-92, Dec. 10, 1992; amended Feb. 15, 1993; amended Jan. 18, 2008.