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American Veterinary Medical Association

AVMA Executive Board Issues Policy to Boost States' Authority to Control Quality of Veterinary Care

Published in Law and Health Weekly, December 15th, 2007

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Executive Board passed a new policy to keep local municipalities out of the business of regulating veterinary procedures, and bolstering the authority of state bodies to guide and oversee veterinary medicine.

The new AVMA policy states that: "State governments, rather than local governments, are the appropriate entities to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine, including allowing or restricting specific procedures." It is, in part, a response to the June 2007 decision of the California Court of Appeals to allow the City of West Hollywood to pass a declawing ban not authorized by the California Veterinary Medical...

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