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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86191</law_id><section_number>54.1-3409</section_number><catch_line>Professional use by veterinarians</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="34">Drug Control Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A veterinarian may not prescribe <span class="dictionary">controlled substances</span> for human use and shall only prescribe, <span class="dictionary">dispense</span> or <span class="dictionary">administer</span> a <span class="dictionary">controlled substance</span> in good faith for use by <span class="dictionary">animals</span> within the course of his professional practice. He may prescribe, on a written <span class="dictionary">prescription</span> or on oral <span class="dictionary">prescription</span> as authorized by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="When pharmacist may sell and dispense drugs" href="/54.1-3410/">54.1-3410</a>. He may <span class="dictionary">administer</span> <span class="dictionary">drugs</span>, and he may cause them to be administered by an assistant or orderly under his direction and supervision. Such a <span class="dictionary">prescription</span> shall be dated and signed by the <span class="dictionary">person</span> prescribing on the day when issued, and shall bear the full name and address of the owner of the <span class="dictionary">animal</span>, and the species of the <span class="dictionary">animal</span> for which the <span class="dictionary">drug</span> is prescribed and the full name, address and registry number, under the federal <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the <span class="dictionary">person</span> prescribing, if he is required by those <span class="dictionary">laws</span> to be so registered.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 54-498; 1956, c. 225; 1970, c. 650, &#xA7; 54-524.66; 1983, c. 528; 1988, c. 765.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
