O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 43-50-53 (2019)

Administration of examinations; reexamination; reactivation

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) The board shall approve an examination to measure the competence of the applicant to engage in the practice as a licensed veterinary technician and shall set by rule or regulation the score needed to pass any such examination.

(b) If an applicant fails an examination, the applicant may take a subsequent examination upon payment of license examination fees.

(c) Any licensed veterinary technician in this state whose license has been on inactive status for at least five consecutive years and who desires to reactivate such license shall be required to take continuing education, pay all fees, and meet all other requirements and board rules or regulations as a licensed veterinary technician.

History

Code 1981, § 43-50-53, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 705, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1706, § 19; Ga. L. 2003, p. 615,

§ 1-1; Ga. L. 2006, p. 30, § 3/HB 999; Ga. L. 2012, p. 678, § 3/HB 409; Ga. L. 2018, p. 770, § 3/HB 956.

Annotations

The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, inserted "licensed" preceding "veterinary technician" in subsection (a), and twice in subsection (c); in subsection (b), substituted "license" for "the registration and" in the first sentence and deleted the former second sentence, which read: "No person may take the examination more than three times without review and approval by the board under such circumstances as the board deems appropriate."; in subsection (c), substituted "license" for "certificate of registration" near the middle, substituted "license" for "registration" in the middle, and deleted "for registration" following "regulations" near the end.