California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 2 — Healing ArtsChapter 7 — OptometryArticle 3 — Admission to PracticeSection 3042.5
(a) The practice of persons actually enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students of optometry in the clinical departments of schools or colleges of optometry accredited by the board shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that such practice shall be entirely confined to the operations of the clinical department of the accredited school or college of optometry and shall be carried on only in pursuing the study of optometry.
(b) The board may grant, for specified periods, exemption from the provisions of this chapter to any person who is licensed in another state or country and who is employed as a clinician or instructor by an accredited school or college of optometry. Such exemption from the provisions of this chapter shall extend only to practice which is conducted for educational purposes and which is confined to the clinical department of the accredited school or college employing the person to whom the exemption is granted.
Notes
Exempts optometry students actually enrolled in accredited schools from the chapter only for practice confined to the school’s clinical department and undertaken in studying optometry. The board may also grant time-limited exemptions to out-of-state or foreign licensees employed as clinicians or instructors, but only for educational practice confined to the employing accredited school’s clinical department.
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