Wyoming Statutes Title 33. Professions and Occupations § 33-30-202. Definitions

(i) “Animal” is any animal other than man and includes fowl, birds, fish and reptiles, wild or domestic, living or dead;

(ii) “Veterinary medicine” is that discipline of medicine, system, science and art devoted to preventing or alleviating illness, pain, disease and deformity of animals by diagnosing, treating, prescribing or operating, and to preventing the spread to human beings of those diseases capable of being contracted by human beings from animals, utilizing means and methods which are taught and practiced in accredited colleges of veterinary medicine. Veterinary dentistry, cosmetic surgery and physiological examination of animals shall be considered a part of veterinary medicine;

(iii) “Practice of veterinary medicine” shall include, but not be limited to, the practice:

(iv) “Veterinarian” means a person who has received a doctor's degree in veterinary medicine from an accredited college of veterinary medicine;

(v) “Licensed veterinarian” means a person who is validly and currently licensed to practice veterinary medicine in this state. For the purpose of this act such licensed veterinarian is also considered to be a practicing veterinarian;

(vi) “College of veterinary medicine” means any veterinary college or school or division of a university or college that offers the degree, doctor of veterinary medicine or its equivalent, and that conforms to the standards required for accreditation by the American Veterinary Medical Association;

(vii) “Person” means any individual, firm, partnership, association, joint venture, cooperative and corporation, or any other group or combination acting in concert; and whether or not acting as a principal, trustee, fiduciary, receiver, or as any other kind of legal or personal representative, or as the successor in interest, assignee, agent, factor, servant, employee, director, officer, or any other representative of such person;

(viii) “Board” means the Wyoming board of veterinary medicine;

(ix) “Animal health emergency” means any event or situation involving animal disease or animal welfare that threatens public welfare and the viability of animal industries, including, but not limited to, incursion of foreign animal disease, natural disaster and bioterrorism;

(x) “Animal euthanasia technician” means a person who is employed or sponsored by a law enforcement agency whose duties include euthanizing an unwanted, sick, injured or dangerous domestic animal;

(xi) “Euthanasia” means the act or practice of providing a humane death for an animal.