LAC 46:LXXXV.401. Purpose

A. The Louisiana Board of Veterinary Medicine, recognizing that a veterinarian's competency is a safeguard for public health and the safety and welfare of the citizens of the state of Louisiana, hereby adopts the following continuing veterinary education requirements as a prerequisite for the annual veterinary re-registration of a license to practice in Louisiana. All such educational programs shall be designed to keep the members of the profession abreast with current learning and scholarship.