South Dakota Codified Laws 36-12-22. Grounds for refusal, suspension, or revocation of license and certificate
The State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners may, in compliance with chapter 1-26, either refuse to issue a license or refuse to issue a certificate of registration or suspend or revoke a license and certificate of registration upon any of the following grounds:
(1) Fraud or deception in procuring the license;
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 36-12-22
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
- Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
- Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
- written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
(2) The publication or use of any untruthful or improper statement, or representation, with a view of deceiving the public, or any client or customer in connection with the practice of veterinary medicine;
(3) Habitual intemperance in the use of intoxicating liquors, or habitual addiction to the use of morphine, cocaine, or other habit-forming drugs; or entry of a plea of guilty to, or nolo contendere to, or conviction of a violation of any federal or state law relating to controlled drugs or substances;
(4) Immoral, unprofessional, or dishonorable conduct manifestly disqualifying the licensee from practicing veterinary medicine;
(5) Malpractice, including failure to furnish to the board, upon written application by it, any report or information relating thereto;
(6) The employment of an unlicensed person to perform work which under this chapter can lawfully be done only by persons licensed to practice veterinary medicine;
(7) Fraud or dishonest conduct in applying or reporting diagnostic biological tests or in issuing health certificates;
(8) Failure to keep one’s premises in a reasonably clean and sanitary condition and failure to use reasonably sanitary methods in the practice of veterinary medicine;
(9) The use, prescription, or sale of any veterinary prescription drug in the absence of a valid veterinary client-patient relationship;
(10) Professional incompetence which constitutes a deviation from the statewide standard of competence, which is that minimum degree of skill and knowledge necessary for the performance of characteristic tasks of a veterinarian in at least a reasonably effective way.
Source: SDC 1939, § 40.0206; SL 1961, ch 201, § 13; revised pursuant to SL 1972, ch 15, § 4; SL 1993, ch 279, § 4; SL 2001, ch 204, § 1; SL 2005, ch 199, § 39.