2026 Minnesota Statutes

156.072 NONRESIDENTS; LICENSES.

Subdivision 1.Application.

A doctor of veterinary medicine duly admitted to practice in any state, commonwealth, territory, or district of the United States or province of Canada desiring permission to practice veterinary medicine in this state shall submit an application to the board upon forms prescribed by the board.

Subd. 2.Required with application.

An applicant for a license to practice veterinary medicine in the state must provide the following to the board:

(1) either:

(i) a copy of a diploma from an accredited or approved college of veterinary medicine; or

(ii) a copy of a diploma from a foreign college of veterinary medicine, a translation of the diploma if the diploma is not in English, and a certificate of satisfactory completion of the ECFVG or PAVE program;

(2) a copy of the applicant's valid unrestricted license to practice veterinary medicine in good standing from a state or territory in the United States or Canada;

(3) a certificate from the regulatory agency having jurisdiction over the conduct of practice of veterinary medicine that such applicant is in good standing and is not the subject of disciplinary action or pending disciplinary action;

(4) a certificate from all other jurisdictions in which the applicant holds a currently active license or held a license within the past ten years, stating that the applicant is and was in good standing and has not been subject to disciplinary action;

(5) in lieu of clauses (3) and (4), certification from the Veterinary Information Verification Agency that the applicant's licensure is in good standing;

(6) a nonrefundable fee;

(7) score reports on previously taken national examinations in veterinary medicine, certified by the Veterinary Information Verification Agency unless the board has waived this requirement because the applicant's current American Association of Veterinary State Boards licensing jurisdiction officially reported North American Veterinary Licensing Examination scores to the board;

(8) if requesting waiver of examination, provide evidence of meeting licensure requirements in the state of the applicant's original licensure that were substantially equal to the requirements for licensure in Minnesota in existence at that time;

(9) proof that the applicant received a passing score for the Minnesota Veterinarian Jurisprudence Examination; and

(10) a completed criminal background check.

Subd. 3.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2026 c 53 s 63]

Subd. 4.

MS 1998 [Renumbered 156.073]

Subd. 5.

MS 1994 [Renumbered subd 4]

History:

1965 c 204 s 9; 1976 c 222 s 128,129; 1976 c 285 s 7-9; 1986 c 444; 1996 c 415 s 14; 1999 c 231 s 158,206; 2008 c 297 art 1 s 36; 2026 c 53 s 41,42