The secretary-treasurer of the Board shall keep records of all the proceedings of the Board, shall receive and account for all monies received by the Board, and shall keep a register of licenses showing the dates of applications for licenses to practice veterinary medicine. All licenses issued by the Board must be numbered and recorded by the secretary-treasurer and, where a license is denied by the Board to any applicant, the fact and grounds for the denial must be entered in the minutes of the Board. The time of issuance or denial of a license must be noted along with the names of those Board members present and such file or record must be open to public inspection. Where a license is denied to an applicant or if a license is revoked or suspended, the fact and ground of the action must be communicated in writing to the applicant or holder of the license.

Information received by the Board through inspections and investigations must be confidential and must not be disclosed except in a proceeding involving the issuance, denial, renewal, suspension, or revocation of a license.