NAC638.048. Prohibited acts.

A veterinarian shall not:

     1. Falsify records of health care;

     2. Falsify records so as to indicate his or her presence at a time when he or she was not in attendance or that procedures were performed by the veterinarian which were in fact not performed by him or her;

     3. Write a prescription for a controlled substance in such an excessive amount as to constitute a departure from prevailing standards of acceptable veterinary medical practice;

     4. Consistently use veterinary medical procedures, services or treatments which constitute a departure from the prevailing standards of acceptable veterinary medical practice;

     5. Render professional services to an animal while the veterinarian is under the influence of alcohol or any controlled substance or is in any impaired mental or physical condition;

     6. Acquire any controlled substances from any pharmacy or other source by misrepresentation, fraud, deception or subterfuge;

     7. Operate a veterinary facility in a manner that violates a provision of chapter 574 of NRS; or

     8. Prescribe, dispense, deliver or order another person to deliver any prescription drug, including, without limitation, any controlled substance in schedules I to V, inclusive, as described in chapter 453 of NRS, and any dangerous drug, referred to in NRS 454.181 to 454.371, inclusive, unless the veterinarian first:

     (a) Establishes a veterinarian-client-patient relationship; and

     (b) Makes a medical determination that the prescription drug is therapeutically indicated for the health and well-being of the animal.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Veterinary Med. Exam’rs, eff. 3-19-86; A 7-7-94; R057-00, 6-20-2000; R069-01, 10-12-2001)