Section 4741.17 — Fees.
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(A)Applicants or registrants shall pay to the state veterinary medical licensing board:
(1)Except as otherwise provided in division
(B)of this section, for an initial veterinary license, two hundred seventy-five dollars;
(2)For an initial limited license to practice veterinary medicine for an intern, resident in a veterinary specialty, or graduate student, thirty-five dollars;
(3)For an initial limited license to practice veterinary medicine for an instructor, researcher, or diagnostician, one hundred fifty-five dollars;
(4)For a veterinary temporary permit, one hundred dollars;
(5)For a duplicate license, thirty-five dollars;
(6)For the veterinary license biennial renewal fee, where the application is postmarked no later than the first day of March, one hundred fifty-five dollars; where the application is postmarked after the first day of March, but no later than the first day of April, two hundred twenty-five dollars; and where the application is postmarked after the first day of April, four hundred fifty dollars. Notwithstanding section 4741.25 of the Revised Code, the board shall deposit ten dollars of each veterinary license biennial renewal fee that it collects into the state treasury to the credit of the veterinarian loan repayment fund created in section 4741.46 of the Revised Code.
(7)For the limited license to practice veterinary medicine biennial renewal fee, where the application is postmarked not later than the first day of July, one hundred fifty-five dollars; where the application is postmarked after the first day of July, but not later than the first day of August, two hundred twenty-five dollars; and where the application is postmarked after the first day of August, four hundred fifty dollars. Notwithstanding section 4741.25 of the Revised Code, the board shall deposit ten dollars of each limited license biennial renewal fee that it collects from instructors, researchers, and diagnosticians into the state treasury to the credit of the veterinarian loan repayment fund.
(8)For an initial registered veterinary technician registration fee, thirty dollars;
(9)For the biennial renewal registration fee of a registered veterinary technician, thirty dollars;
(10)For a specialist certificate, fifty dollars. The certificate is not subject to renewal.
(11)For the reinstatement of a suspended license, or for reinstatement of a license that has lapsed more than one year, an additional fee of seventy-five dollars;
(12)For a provisional veterinary graduate license, one hundred dollars.
(B)A person who holds a provisional veterinary graduate license and who does all of the following shall receive an initial veterinary license free of charge:
(1)Applies for a license to practice veterinary medicine;
(2)Successfully passes a nationally recognized examination approved by the board for a license to practice veterinary medicine;
(3)Provides to the board's satisfaction proof of passage of the examination.
(C)For the purposes of divisions (A)(6), (7), and
(9)of this section, a date stamp of the office of the board may serve in lieu of a postmark.
(D)Regarding the fees in this section that are reduced by H.B. 509 of the 134th general assembly, the board may gradually reduce the fees, provided that the board implements the full reduction not later than January 1, 2028.