Exam
Test your knowledge of equine law. by Attorney Krysia Nelson
Put Your Knowledge to the Test 1. True or False? Effective December 1, 2016,
new overtime rules went into effect and anyone making less than $913/week must now be paid time and a half for hours worked in excess of 40 in a week. 2. True or False? If you hire a foreign worker and
pay for their Visa, then they are required to work for you for the length of time that their work Visa authorizes them to work in this country. 3. True or False? A release of liability is only good in states that have passed a law limiting li- ability for equine professionals. 4. True or False? If your horse is selected for
drug testing at a horse show, the testers must strictly follow testing protocols and, if they violate testing protocols then the test results “don’t count.” 5. True or False? If you apply DMSO to your horse with your bare hands, certain drugs in your system can transfer to the horse. 6. True or False? If you are boarding a horse and
the owner owes you more money than the horse is worth, you have a lien on the horse and that gives
you the right to sell the horse to satisfy the debt. 7. True or False? If you are keeping horses on someone else’s property, they have to give you at least 60 days notice in advance of when they want you to leave. 8. True or False? If you sue a veterinarian for
malpractice, you have to have another veterinarian testify against the veterinarian you are suing. 9. True or False? If you ship your horse with a
commercial shipper across state lines and the ship- per does something stupid and your horse is in- jured or dies, you can sue the shipper for the value of your horse. 10. True or False? If you pay someone real mon-
ey for a horse and it later turns out that the person you paid didn’t own the horse, then you still get to keep it. Bonus question: 47 states have some form of
equine activity law limiting the liability of equine activity sponsors for accidents resulting from risks inherent to the sport. What three states have no such law?
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