ORS 686.130 - "Unprofessional or dishonorable conduct" defined

• Cite as: ORS 686.130

"Unprofessional or dishonorable conduct," as used in this chapter, includes:

(1) The fraudulent use or misuse of any health certificate, shipping certificate, brand inspection certificate, or other blank forms used in practice, that might lead to the dissemination of disease or the transportation of diseased animals or the sale of inedible food products of animal origin for human consumption.

(2) Dilatory methods, willful neglect or misrepresentation in the inspection of meat.

(3) Misrepresentation of services rendered.

(4) Failure to report, or the negligent handling of the serious epidemic diseases of animals, such as anthrax, rabies, glanders, brucellosis, tuberculosis, foot and mouth disease, hog cholera, blackleg, and any other communicable disease known to medical science as being a menace to human and animal health.

(5) The dispensing or giving to anyone live culture or attenuated live virus vaccine to be administered by a layperson without providing instruction as to its administration and use and without prior written authorization from the State Veterinarian when such product is declared to be prohibited under ORS 596.075.

(6) Having professional connection with, or lending one's name to any illegal practitioner of veterinary medicine and the various branches thereof.

(7) Impairment as defined in ORS 676.303.

(8) Fraud or dishonesty in applying or reporting on any test for disease in animals.

(9) False or misleading advertising.

(10) Conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude or conviction of a felony. The record of the conviction is conclusive evidence.