As Amended
SEC. 73-39-7. Board of Veterinary Medicine; compensation of members; financing of duties.
(1) There shall be no obligation on the part of the state for the payment of any money as salary or otherwise to any member of the board, but the compensation and expenses of said board shall be paid out of the fees and fines as hereinafter provided. The members of the board shall receive as compensation for their services the sum of Forty Dollars ($40.00) for each day in actual service of said board and, in addition, their expenses incident to the meeting of the board. If the fines and fees are not sufficient to defray such compensation and expenses they shall be prorated among the members of said board, after paying operating expenses of said board.
(2) All fees and other monies received by the secretary-treasurer of the board shall be deposited in a special fund that is created in the State Treasury and shall be used for the implementation and administration of this chapter when appropriated by the Legislature for such purpose. The monies in the special fund shall be subject to all provisions of the state budget laws that are applicable to special fund agencies, and disbursements from the special fund shall be made by the State Treasurer only upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer upon requisitions signed by the president or secretary-treasurer of the board. Any interest earned on this special fund shall be credited by the State Treasurer to the fund and shall not be paid into the State General Fund. Any unexpended monies remaining in the special fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not lapse into the State General Fund. The State Auditor shall audit the financial affairs of the board and the transactions involving the special fund at least once a year in the same manner as for other special fund agencies.
(3) The board is authorized to employ such personnel and incur such expense as may be necessary for the performance of its duties and the enforcement of this chapter including expenses for the promotion of education and standards of veterinary medicine through institutes, conferences, educational programs or such other means as may result in improved services.
SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 7949; 1930, Sec. 7320; 1942, Sec. 8914-04; Laws, 1914, ch. 130; 1946, ch. 371, Sec. 4; 1971, ch. 468, Sec. 1; reenacted and amended, 1980, ch. 545, Sec. 5; 1982, ch. 397, Sec. 3; reenacted, 1988, ch. 340, Sec. 5; 1992, ch. 502, Sec. 6, eff from and after January 1, 1993.