Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 332-B:17

  • Board: means the board of veterinary medicine established in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 332-B:1
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
  • Veterinary medicine: means and includes veterinary surgery, obstetrics, dentistry, and all other branches or specialties of veterinary medicine. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 332-B:1
Persons whose licenses have lapsed for 5 or more years due to nonrenewal shall not again be licensed without filing an application for reinstatement which contains such information as the board may by rule require for the purpose of determining whether the applicant retains the level of professional qualifications expected of existing practitioners, provided, however, that persons who have not practiced veterinary medicine for at least 1,000 hours per year in a jurisdiction with license requirements comparable to those of this state for 3 or more years since they were last licensed in New Hampshire shall meet all requirements for initial licensure.