Section 37-113-NEW-002 - [Newly enacted section not yet numbered] [Effective 7/1/2024] [Definitions]As used in this act, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed in this section unless context of use clearly requires otherwise:
(a) "Veterinary student" means a student enrolled in the Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine.(b) "Dean" means the Dean of the Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine.(c) "Food supply animal" includes cattle, hogs, sheep, goats and poultry.(d) "Food supply animal veterinarian" means a veterinarian who is engaged in general or food supply animal practice as his or her primary focus of practice and who has thirty percent (30%) of his or her practice devoted to food supply animal veterinary medicine.(e) "Large animal veterinarian" means a veterinarian whose practice is focused primarily on the health and safety of farm animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and horses, who must spend sixty percent (60%) of their time providing care for large animals.(f) "Program" means the Dr. Elton Mac Huddleston Rural Veterinarian Scholarship Program administered by the Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine.(g) "Rural community" means an area of the state with a population density less than five hundred (500) people per square mile as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture.(h) "Rural mixed animal veterinarian" means a veterinarian who practices in a rural community with provision of care to both small animals, i.e., dogs or cats, and large animals, i.e., cattle, sheep, goats, pigs or horses, within which the veterinarian must spend a minimum of thirty percent (30%) of his or her time providing care to large animals.Miss. Code § 37-113-NEW-002
Added by Laws, 2024, ch. TBD, HB 1210,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2024.