Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 340

Veterinarians

←340.218

Section 340.220.1

340.222→

August 28, 2015

Transplant of embryo considered veterinary practice, when.

340.220. It is considered the practice of veterinary medicine to use any

invasive procedure to remove any embryo from an animal for the purpose of

transplanting such embryo into another female animal or for the purpose of

cryopreserving such embryo, or to implant such embryo into an animal. It is

not considered the practice of veterinary medicine for a person or that

person's full-time employees to remove an embryo from the person's own animal

for the purpose of transplanting or cryopreserving such embryo or to implant

an embryo into the person's own animal; however, ownership of the animal

shall not be transferred or the employment of any person changed for the

purpose of circumventing sections 340.200 to 340.330.



(L. 1992 H.B. 878 § 11, A.L. 1999 S.B. 424)







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