[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 9, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 9CFR161.1]

[Page 943]
 
                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 
  CHAPTER I--ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 161_REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS FOR ACCREDITED VETERINARIANS AND
SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF SUCH ACCREDITATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 161.1  Statement of purpose; performance of accredited duties in different States.




Sec.
161.1 Statement of purpose; performance of accredited duties in 
          different States.
161.2 Requirements and application procedures for accreditation.
161.3 Standards for accredited veterinarian duties.
161.4 Suspension or revocation of veterinary accreditation; criminal and 
          civil penalties.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 8301-8317; 15 U.S.C. 1828; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 
371.4.

    Source: 57 FR 54912, Nov. 23, 1992, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) This subchapter concerns a program administered by APHIS to 
accredit veterinarians and thereby authorize them to perform, on behalf 
of APHIS, certain activities specified in this chapter. This program is 
intended to ensure that an adequate number of qualified veterinarians 
are available in the United States to perform such activities.
    (b) If an accredited veterinarian wishes to perform accredited 
duties in a State other than the State for which the veterinarian has 
completed an orientation in accordance with Sec. 161.2(a)(4), the 
accredited veterinarian shall so inform the Veterinarian-in-Charge of 
the new State. The Veterinarian-in-Charge of the new State may require 
the accredited veterinarian to complete, prior to performing any 
accredited duties in the new State, an orientation in animal health 
procedures and issues relevant to the new State. The Veterinarian-in-
Charge shall review the content of each such orientation and shall 
approve its use after determining that it includes adequate information 
about animal health agencies, regulatory requirements, administrative 
procedures, and animal disease problems in the new State, to prepare an 
accredited veterinarian from another State to perform accredited duties 
in the new State. The Veterinarian-in-Charge shall also give the State 
Animal Health Official of the new State an opportunity to review the 
contents of the orientation, and invite him or her to participate in 
developing orientation materials and conducting the orientation.
    (c) An accredited veterinarian may not perform accredited duties in 
a State in which the accredited veterinarian is not licensed or legally 
able to practice veterinary medicine.