Illinois Administrative Code
Title 68 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Part 1500 - VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY PRACTICE ACT OF 2004
Section 1500.50 - Standards of Professional Conduct
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
In determining what constitutes dishonorable, unethical or unprofessional conduct of a character likely to deceive, defraud or harm the public, the Board or hearing officer shall consider the following standards as they relate to the person who is the subject of the proposed disciplinary action. The standards shall include, but not be limited to:
a) Being convicted of any crime, an essential element of which is larceny, embezzlement, obtaining money, property or credit by false pretenses or by means of a confidence game, dishonesty, fraud, misstatement or moral turpitude;
b) Wilfully violating or knowingly assisting in the violation of any law relating to the use or dispensing of any medicine or drug as specified in Section 25 of the Act;
c) Wilfully administering or prescribing illegal drugs for animals;
d) Wilfully administering or prescribing prescription drugs illegally. Illegally means:
e) Wilfully preparing or signing false statements in order to induce payment for medical or ancillary services by insurance companies;
f) Wilfully making or causing to be made any false report to the Division regarding compliance with CE requirements;
g) Wilfully omitting to make or file any report or record or wilfully making or filing or causing to be made or filed any false report or record pertaining to a veterinarian's practice as required by any State agency;
h) Failing to possess and apply the knowledge and use the skill and care in treating a condition that is ordinarily used by a reasonably well-qualified veterinarian in the locality in which he/she practices or in similar localities in similar cases and circumstances;
i) Delegating of patient care responsibility to any individual when the veterinarian has reason to believe that the person may not be competent;
j) Misrepresenting as to educational background, training, credentials, competence or veterinary medical staff memberships;
k) Failing to maintain adequate medical records, including but not limited to the following:
l) Failing to properly supervise subordinate health professional and paraprofessional staff under his/her supervision and control in patient care responsibilities; or
m) Committing of any other act or omission that violates veterinarian's responsibility to a client according to accepted veterinary standards of practice.