Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-10-2

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024

Section 112-10-2 - Assistant animal health officers

(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 horse 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 horse in an emergency shall immediately file a complete report of the circumstances and veterinary procedure with the stewards and the animal health officer.

(c) No 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 employed by the commission.

(d) The duties of each assistant animal health officer shall consist of the following:

(1) Supervising practicing veterinarians at the racetrack facility and recommending to the stewards or the commission the discipline to be imposed upon each practicing veterinarian who violates commission regulations;

(2) determining whether each horse is sound to race and, if the horse is unsound, placing any horse on the veterinarian's list and removing any horse from the veterinarian's list when, at the assistant animal health officer's discretion, the placement or removal is proper. Each horse shall remain on the veterinarian's list a minimum of four days. No horse shall be allowed to race before its name is removed from the veterinarian's list;

(3) establishing a procedure for and supervising the collection of urine, blood, or other specimens from horses, as designated by the assistant animal health officer, the stewards, or commission and maintain identification records for the specimens as required by the commission;

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

(5) reporting immediately to the animal health officer the name and tattoo number of each horse at a racetrack facility that dies or is humanely destroyed and the reason for the death;

(6) being at the racing secretary's or stewards' office to report to the racing secretary or stewards on the assistant animal health officer's inspection of horses and each horse's condition before scratch time on each race day at the time designated by the stewards;

(7) with the permission of the stewards, scratching a horse at any time before the horse enters the starting gate;

(8) directing a horse to be isolated or declaring the horse ineligible to race if it has symptoms of chronic unsoundness. If a horse is declared ineligible to race, the assistant animal health officer shall report this fact to the stewards, who shall write a formal ruling against the horse and write the reason for the ruling on the horse's registration papers;

(9) accompanying and observing each field of horses from the time the horses enter the paddock to be saddled for the race until they are dispatched from the starting gate;

(10) inspecting horses in the paddock after the finish of each race;

(11) in an emergency, treating or humanely destroying any horse that is so seriously injured that the assistant animal health officer believes the action is necessary. Each horse owner, if present, and trainer at the racetrack facility shall consent to the assistant animal health officer's humane destruction of a seriously injured horse; and

(12) performing other duties prescribed by the animal health officer, the stewards or the commission.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-10-2

Authorized by K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 74-8804; implementing K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 74-8806, 74-8810; effective, T-112-3-31-89, March 31, 1989; effective June 26, 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. 31, 2003.